PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL

Located at 811 E 149TH ST, in BRONX, New York, PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary-level community that instructs 409 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7.

PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL is one of 41 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, a district that hosts 13,625 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%); the rest comes out to 7% Black. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL is one.

PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL 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. On composite proficiency, PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL has decreased 23%, going from 533 students in 2018 to 409 in 2025.

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