PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX

Set in BRONX, New York, PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12. It teaches 471 students across grades pre-K through 5.

PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX is one of 47 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12, a district that educates 15,705 students overall.

On demographics, PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 22% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX is one.

DEMOCRACY PREP ENDURANCE CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX. On composite proficiency, PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. PS 150 CHARLES JAMES FOX's enrollment has shrank 46% since 2018, when it stood at 867 (now 471). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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