PS 246 POE CENTER

PS 246 POE CENTER is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in BRONX, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, with 455 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 83 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 (40,459 students total), PS 246 POE CENTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PS 246 POE CENTER reports that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 10% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, PS 246 POE CENTER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.0%; this one delivers 31.3%.

Zooming out to the county, Bronx County reports that median household earnings sit near $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. PS 246 POE CENTER is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL II is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 246 POE CENTER. On composite proficiency, PS 246 POE CENTER comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 246 POE CENTER's enrollment has fell 38% since 2018, when it stood at 730 (now 455). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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