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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
C
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Scored higher than 32% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 22% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 43% smaller than its 5th grade class (111).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
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.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
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 →
Schools most like PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA's state test result (35.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA this school | 496 | 96.0% | 35.1% |
| PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRONX | 472 | 95.1% | 32.7% |
| D'YOUVILLE-PORTER CAMPUS BUFFALO | 521 | 94.0% | 10.9% |
| SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP BRONX | 557 | 96.2% | 40.3% |
| JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL NEW YORK | 516 | 95.5% | 28.6% |
| HERMAN BADILLO BILINGUAL ACADEMY BUFFALO | 514 | 94.0% | 11.9% |
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 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #1,833 of 2,335 | #143 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,674 of 2,342 ▲ 34 | #133 of 212 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,728 of 2,343 ▲ 156 | #152 of 212 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 496 | #844 of 2,585 | #76 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #426 of 2,338 | #30 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.0% | #1,784 of 2,388 | #172 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.0% | #154 of 2,534 | #78 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -50.9% | #34 of 1,757 | #11 of 153 |
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
496
-288 (-37%) vs 2020
-50% since 2010-11, when it was 997
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 496 | 49.7 | 10.0:1 | 96% (476) |
| 2023-24 | 538 | 51.9 | 10.4:1 | 97% (520) |
| 2022-23 | 596 | 55.1 | 10.8:1 | 93% (552) |
| 2020-21 | 784 | 69 | 11.4:1 | 93% (731) |
| 2017-18 | 1,010 | 73 | 13.8:1 | 90% (909) |
| 2015-16 | 1,044 | 66 | 15.8:1 | 80% (836) |
| 2010-11 | 997 | 78 | 12.8:1 | 99% (987) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA.
About PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA
In BRONX, New York, PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA is a mid-sized elementary school. Its enrollment is 496 students, spread over kindergarten through 5.
In NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, 83 schools enroll a combined 40,459 students.
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA is 80% Hispanic by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 13% Black and 4% White. In Bronx County overall, about 55% of residents are Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 34%.
PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA reports a ratio of 10.0 students per teacher, from 49.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 10.0:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Lunch program data show 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA outscored 32%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA, the prediction is 39.7% and the result is 35.1%.
For Bronx County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. There are 472 public schools in the county, enrolling about 202,028, PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA among them.
BRONX ACADEMY FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (BASE) is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment decreased 37% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 11.4:1 to 10.0:1.
The discussion board for PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates 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 #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
- BRONX ACADEMY FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (BASE)0.1 mi · 375
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY0.1 mi · 331
- CROTONA INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 354
- 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.