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How has PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
679
Elementary
DISTRICT 555 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11·NCES 360008802100
PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS
311 E 237TH ST, BRONX, NY 10470 · (718) 324-1924 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL679 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
15.1:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
425 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 80 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 8% smaller than its 8th grade class (80).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
100.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +33.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 100 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 33 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 100.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 67.0% |
% 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
63.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 19 JUDITH K WEISS
PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS's state test result (63.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS this school | 679 | 62.6% | 63.9% |
| ELLENVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ELLENVILLE | 730 | 56.3% | 31.5% |
| MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HUDSON | 689 | 63.4% | 27.6% |
| NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SELDEN | 771 | 55.4% | 30.3% |
| EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT JERVIS | 702 | 67.8% | 42.0% |
| SHEAFE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 612 | 55.6% | 53.9% |
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 19 JUDITH K WEISS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #602 of 2,335 | #41 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 100% | #2 of 2,342 ▲ 637 | #2 of 212 ▲ 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #832 of 2,343 ▼ 268 | #57 of 212 ▼ 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 679 | #303 of 2,585 | #29 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #2,050 of 2,338 | #164 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #495 of 2,388 | #13 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.6% | #1,110 of 2,534 | #217 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +32.9% | #75 of 606 | #9 of 36 |
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
679
+147 (+28%) vs 2020
+29% since 2010-11, when it was 525
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 679 | 45 | 15.1:1 | 63% (425) |
| 2023-24 | 663 | 47.3 | 14.0:1 | 58% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 628 | 44.8 | 14.0:1 | 58% (365) |
| 2020-21 | 532 | 35 | 15.2:1 | 45% (241) |
| 2017-18 | 511 | 31 | 16.5:1 | 59% (304) |
| 2015-16 | 520 | 32 | 16.3:1 | 55% (288) |
| 2010-11 | 525 | 33 | 15.9:1 | 47% (248) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS.
About PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS
Students in BRONX, New York, attend PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS, a high-enrollment elementary school. The latest federal count shows 679 students in pre-K through 8. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 53% bigger than average.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 has a total of 62 schools and 30,138 students, PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS among them.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS. The largest is White students, at 47%. Next come 35% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 13% White among all Bronx County residents. PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS's diversity index is 64%, against a US figure of 70%.
PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS's 45 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 15.1:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 15.1:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 63%. That is 27 points below the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 79% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS would be expected to post about 52.0%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 63.9%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Bronx County, the median household income is $48,676, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS is one of 472 public schools in the county.
Of nearby public schools, PS 103 HECTOR FONTANEZ is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 63.9% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 9 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment climbed 28% from its 2020-21 level of 532.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- PS 89Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS/MS 194Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS 96 RICHARD RODGERSElementary · 880 students
- PS 106 PARKCHESTERElementary · 822 students
Other schools in BRONX
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL IIICombined · 2,390 students
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- ATMOSPHERE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 1,481 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
Nearby schools
- PS 103 HECTOR FONTANEZ0.6 mi · 774
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY0.6 mi · 1,234
- PS 16 WAKEFIELD0.7 mi · 343
- MATILDA AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)0.7 mi · 222
- BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 30.8 mi · 512
- PS 21 PHILIP H SHERIDAN0.9 mi · 406
Frequently asked questions
About PS 19 JUDITH K WEISSWhat is the total enrollment at PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS?
PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS enrolls approximately 679 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS serve?
PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS?
At PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS, the student body is approximately 47% White, 35% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS?
PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 in Bronx County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.