PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES

PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES, a tight-knit elementary school in BRONX, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, instructs 303 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, which oversees 70 schools and 23,786 students, PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school reports 30% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 98% of students at PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 37.4%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bronx County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 236 LANGSTON HUGHES is one campus in the mix.

YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 43.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES has increased 3%, going from 295 students in 2018 to 303 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 25% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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