PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER

PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER, an intimate K-5 school in BRONX, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, serves 271 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7 runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 13,625 students. PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 35% Black, 4% White. That composition is broadly in line with Bronx County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bronx County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.2%; this one delivers 22.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bronx County) logs that median household earnings sit near $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CREO COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER. On composite proficiency, PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER has shrank 55%, going from 598 students in 2018 to 271 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 25% to 35% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

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