PS 28 MOUNT HOPE

PS 28 MOUNT HOPE operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9. Current enrollment sits at 556 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 26% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 runs 70 schools in total, collectively educating 23,786 students. PS 28 MOUNT HOPE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PS 28 MOUNT HOPE shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). The remainder is composed of 17% Black. 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, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 28 MOUNT HOPE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 28 MOUNT HOPE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.9%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate median household income runs about $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%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 28 MOUNT HOPE is one campus in the mix.

IS 117 JOSEPH H WADE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 28 MOUNT HOPE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. PS 28 MOUNT HOPE's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 719 (now 556).

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