PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL

PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL is one of the sprawling elementary schools in BRONX, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, with 742 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL sits 67% larger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,459 students; PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL is among them.

In terms of who attends, PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 34% White, 8% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is visibly less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Bronx County's rate of about 90%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 61.3%; PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL posts 86.9%, +25.7 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bronx County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141), around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 907 (now 742). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 42% to 46%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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