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If you had an hour of school board time for PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
496
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008702691
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA
2475 SOUTHERN BLVD, BRONX, NY 10458 · (718) 584-6390 · Bronx County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL496 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
476 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
44.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
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
35.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
496
-514 (-51%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 13.8:1
% White
4%
was 6%
% Hispanic
80%
was 79%
% Black
13%
was 12%
% Asian
1%
was 2%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, instructing 496 students in grades K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,459 students; PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA is among them.
Demographically, PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA records that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 13% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA reports 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.7%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of -4.6 points.
In the surrounding 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: CROTONA INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA operates from a city-core location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 51%: 1,010 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 #10
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,212 students
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSElementary · 1,091 students
- IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368)High · 953 students
- PS 95 SHEILA MENCHERElementary · 851 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
- CROTONA INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 354
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY0.1 mi · 331
- BRONX ACADEMY FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (BASE)0.1 mi · 375
- THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 450.3 mi · 436
- PS 32 BELMONT0.4 mi · 527
- PS 1880.4 mi · 479
Frequently asked questions
About PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIAHow many students attend PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA?
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA enrolls approximately 496 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA serve?
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA is approximately 10.0:1 (50 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA?
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA reports a student body of 4% White, 80% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA?
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 in Bronx County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.