Enrollment
303
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7·NCES 360008402578
PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL
628 TINTON AVE, BRONX, NY 10455 · (718) 292-5478 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL303 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
282 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 76 | 25% |
| Kindergarten | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +20.0pp since 2023
Math
35.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 20.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL
PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL's state test result (29.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL this school | 303 | 93.1% | 29.4% |
| PS 130 ABRAM STEVENS HEWITT BRONX | 291 | 92.1% | 42.0% |
| BGLIG-SHIRLEY RODRIGUEZ-REMENESKI CS BRONX | 313 | 92.3% | 49.6% |
| PS 73 BRONX BRONX | 283 | 95.1% | 29.0% |
| PS/IS 54 BRONX | 329 | 96.0% | 26.4% |
| PS 226 BRONX | 310 | 96.5% | 48.5% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.4% | #2,031 of 2,335 | #178 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,978 of 2,342 ▲ 228 | #173 of 212 ▲ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,533 of 2,343 ▲ 454 | #127 of 212 ▲ 41 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 303 | #1,973 of 2,585 | #173 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #1,257 of 2,338 | #102 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.4% | #1,748 of 2,388 | #171 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.1% | #294 of 2,534 | #124 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.6% | #97 of 1,757 | #30 of 153 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
303
-78 (-20%) vs 2020
-52% since 2010-11, when it was 631
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 13.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 303 | 25.3 | 12.0:1 | 93% (282) |
| 2023-24 | 321 | 27.5 | 11.7:1 | 96% (308) |
| 2022-23 | 314 | 28.6 | 11.0:1 | 96% (300) |
| 2020-21 | 381 | 28 | 13.6:1 | 97% (368) |
| 2017-18 | 519 | 40 | 13.0:1 | 96% (497) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | 44 | 12.2:1 | 95% (509) |
| 2010-11 | 631 | 60 | 10.5:1 | 97% (610) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL.
About PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL
PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7 in BRONX, New York. It reports enrollment of 303 students in pre-K through 5. The school is 32% below the average for elementary schools in New York.
PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL is a school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7. The district has 41 schools and 13,625 students.
Hispanic students are 78% of those enrolled at PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL. Beyond that, enrollment is 20% Black. In Bronx County overall, about 55% of residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL is 35%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 12.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL, which has 25.3. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 0.9 more students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL is about 93%. The figure for public schools in Bronx County is close, at 90%.
PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 19% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 40.8% at PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 29.4%.
American Community Survey estimates for Bronx County show that median household income comes to about $48,676, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 23%. Bronx County counts 472 public schools with about 202,028 students.
Among nearby public schools, URBAN DOVE TEAM CHARTER SCHOOL II is closest at about 0.1 miles. PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL comes in 8th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
Enrollment fell 20% over 4 years, reaching 303 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.6:1 to 12.0:1 over the same years.
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Bronx County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,404,779
Census ACS
Median income
$48,676
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
472
202,028 students
Quick facts
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- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
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- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
Nearby schools
- URBAN DOVE TEAM CHARTER SCHOOL II0.1 mi · 285
- PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL0.1 mi · 409
- PS 5 PORT MORRIS0.2 mi · 630
- STOREFRONT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 260
- MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ0.2 mi · 319
- GIRLS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE BRONX0.2 mi · 402
Frequently asked questions
About PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL?
PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 303 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL serve?
PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL is approximately 12.0:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL are roughly 1% White, 78% Hispanic, 20% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL in?
PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7.
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