PS 196

PS 196, a reasonably sized elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12, works with 662 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12, which oversees 47 schools and 15,705 students, PS 196 is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PS 196 logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). Other groups include 11% Black, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, PS 196 shows 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, PS 196 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.9%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -11.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bronx County) logs that median household earnings sit near $48,676, 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 196 is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 195, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 196. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 196 at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 40.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 196's enrollment has contracted 29% since 2018, when it stood at 935 (now 662). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 15% to 11% over that span.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.