PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS

PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS is one of the sizable K-5 schools in BRONX, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, with 679 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS sits 53% above that benchmark.

PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS is one of 62 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, a district that serves 30,138 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS shows that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 35% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 13% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bronx County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.0%; this one delivers 63.9%.

In the broader community, census data for Bronx County shows median household earnings sit near $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PS 103 HECTOR FONTANEZ, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 33%: 511 students in 2018 compared to 679 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 60% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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