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Enrollment
343
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7·NCES 360008402143
PS 30 WILTON
510 E 141ST ST, BRONX, NY 10454 · (718) 292-8817 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL343 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
9.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
337 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 | 66 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 30 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (30) is 40% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
40%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
32.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
24.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 21.0% |
% 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
24.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 30 WILTON
PS 30 WILTON's state test result (24.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 30 WILTON this school | 343 | 98.3% | 24.0% |
| PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL BRONX | 358 | 98.6% | 29.7% |
| GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRONX | 353 | 96.9% | 33.6% |
| PS/IS 54 BRONX | 329 | 96.0% | 26.4% |
| PS 43 JONAS BRONCK BRONX | 346 | 96.2% | 36.2% |
| PS 188 ISLAND SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 332 | 97.3% | 57.8% |
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 30 WILTON ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,167 of 2,335 | #195 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,203 of 2,342 ▼ 10 | #202 of 212 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,062 of 2,343 ▼ 66 | #184 of 212 ▼ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 343 | #1,707 of 2,585 | #147 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.9:1 | #401 of 2,338 | #27 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.8% | #1,608 of 2,388 | #151 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.3% | #38 of 2,534 | #19 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.0% | #136 of 1,757 | #48 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
343
-121 (-26%) vs 2020
-28% since 2010-11, when it was 476
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 343 | 34.7 | 9.9:1 | 98% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 391 | 32.6 | 12.0:1 | 99% (388) |
| 2022-23 | 405 | 31.7 | 12.8:1 | 94% (382) |
| 2020-21 | 464 | 39 | 11.9:1 | 94% (435) |
| 2017-18 | 553 | 42 | 13.2:1 | 92% (507) |
| 2015-16 | 592 | 43 | 13.8:1 | 95% (560) |
| 2010-11 | 476 | 35 | 13.6:1 | 97% (460) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 30 WILTON.
About PS 30 WILTON
PS 30 WILTON is one of the public schools in BRONX, New York. It is a small elementary school. It enrolled 343 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 23% lower than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
PS 30 WILTON sits within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, which has 41 schools and 13,625 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at PS 30 WILTON, at 74%. The remaining students are 22% Black and 2% multiracial. Census figures show Bronx County is about 55% Hispanic. PS 30 WILTON's diversity index is 40%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its 34.7 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 9.9:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's lunch program data list 98% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
PS 30 WILTON is graded D by allk12, scoring above 11% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
PS 30 WILTON sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 24.0% and a predicted 38.9%.
Within Bronx County, the median household income is $48,676, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 23%. In all, Bronx County has 472 public schools and roughly 202,028 students.
The nearest public school is INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, at less than a tenth of a mile. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 24.0% average proficiency ranks 7th among 8 nearby schools.
The federal government classifies PS 30 WILTON's location as City: Large.
PS 30 WILTON's enrollment dropped from 464 in 2020-21 to 343 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 11.9:1 to 9.9:1.
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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
Related schools
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- PS/MS 29 MELROSE SCHOOLElementary · 606 students
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Other schools in BRONX
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL IIICombined · 2,390 students
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- ATMOSPHERE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 1,481 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
Nearby schools
- INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 345
- ACADEMY OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY0.1 mi · 268
- PS/IS 2240.1 mi · 169
- PS 1790.1 mi · 198
- YOUNG LEADERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 213
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 LOWER0.2 mi · 145
Frequently asked questions
About PS 30 WILTONHow large is PS 30 WILTON?
PS 30 WILTON enrolls approximately 343 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 30 WILTON serve?
PS 30 WILTON serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 30 WILTON?
Approximately 9.9:1 students per teacher at PS 30 WILTON.
What is the student diversity at PS 30 WILTON?
Student demographics at PS 30 WILTON are roughly 1% White, 74% Hispanic, 22% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is PS 30 WILTON public or private?
PS 30 WILTON is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.