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.

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