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Enrollment
409
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7·NCES 360008402122
PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL
811 E 149TH ST, BRONX, NY 10455 · (718) 292-2995 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL409 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 44% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
11.8:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
394 students
DISTRICT 95% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 48 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
50.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
44.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 43.0% |
% 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
40.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% 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 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL
PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL's state test result (40.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL this school | 409 | 96.3% | 40.3% |
| PS 310 MARBLE HILL BRONX | 403 | 96.0% | 37.9% |
| PS 5 ELLEN LURIE NEW YORK | 425 | 95.1% | 30.1% |
| PS 123 SUYDAM BROOKLYN | 446 | 95.1% | 32.2% |
| PS 189 NEW YORK | 421 | 93.3% | 49.3% |
| PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY NEW YORK | 456 | 94.5% | 40.0% |
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 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #1,601 of 2,335 | #116 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,673 of 2,342 ▼ 117 | #132 of 212 ▼ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,324 of 2,343 ▲ 43 | #104 of 212 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 409 | #1,306 of 2,585 | #113 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #1,180 of 2,338 | #94 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.1% | #2,142 of 2,388 | #202 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.3% | #125 of 2,534 | #64 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.3% | #503 of 1,757 | #110 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
409
-113 (-22%) vs 2020
+17% since 2010-11, when it was 350
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 409 | 34.7 | 11.8:1 | 96% (394) |
| 2023-24 | 421 | 39.4 | 10.7:1 | 97% (410) |
| 2022-23 | 443 | 42.7 | 10.4:1 | 96% (427) |
| 2020-21 | 522 | 49 | 10.7:1 | 93% (487) |
| 2017-18 | 533 | 42 | 12.7:1 | 95% (506) |
| 2015-16 | 505 | 42 | 12.0:1 | 97% (492) |
| 2010-11 | 350 | 33 | 10.6:1 | 99% (347) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL.
About PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL
PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in BRONX, New York, under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 409 students.
PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL sits within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, which has 41 schools and 13,625 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL, with 90% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 7% Black. In Bronx County overall, about 55% of residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 18%.
The school reports 34.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 11.8 students per teacher. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 96%.
allk12 grades PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL a C+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL is within a point of the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 40.3% actual, 39.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Bronx County show that median household income is about $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 472 public schools in Bronx County, with a combined enrollment of about 202,028.
PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.1 miles away in a straight line. PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 40.3% average proficiency ranks 5th among 8 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 22%, from 522 to 409. By 2024-25, the school had 11.8 students per teacher, compared with 10.7 in 2020-21.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOLHow many students attend PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL?
PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 409 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL serve?
PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.8:1 students per teacher at PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL.
How diverse is PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL?
PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL reports a student body of 1% White, 90% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL?
PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7 in Bronx County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.