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What's one thing PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
789
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008702155
PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT
2424 JEROME AVE, BRONX, NY 10468 · (929) 458-3868 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL789 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% 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.
- C+Beats 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
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
782 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 | 70 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 118 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 121 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 118 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 142 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (118) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (142).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
31.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
33.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 23.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
28.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% 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 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT
PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT's state test result (28.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT this school | 789 | 99.1% | 28.3% |
| KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 790 | 93.3% | 56.3% |
| PS/IS 218 RAFAEL HERNANDEZ DUAL LANGUAGE MAGNET SCHOOL BRONX | 807 | 97.0% | 38.2% |
| PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD BRONX | 729 | 99.0% | 30.5% |
| PS 196 BRONX | 662 | 95.3% | 28.4% |
| PS 152 EVERGREEN BRONX | 634 | 97.8% | 34.2% |
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 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #2,070 of 2,335 | #185 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #2,030 of 2,342 ▼ 3 | #182 of 212 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #2,090 of 2,343 ▼ 21 | #190 of 212 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 789 | #161 of 2,585 | #16 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #1,175 of 2,338 | #93 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.3% | #1,955 of 2,388 | #193 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.1% | #15 of 2,534 | #7 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.4% | #879 of 1,757 | #131 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
789
+56 (+8%) vs 2020
-24% since 2010-11, when it was 1,043
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 789 | 67 | 11.8:1 | 99% (782) |
| 2023-24 | 795 | 53 | 15.0:1 | 92% (732) |
| 2022-23 | 747 | 58.3 | 12.8:1 | 92% (687) |
| 2020-21 | 733 | 52 | 14.1:1 | 92% (672) |
| 2017-18 | 922 | 72.1 | 12.8:1 | 91% (839) |
| 2015-16 | 1,025 | 71 | 14.4:1 | 78% (800) |
| 2010-11 | 1,043 | 66 | 15.8:1 | 83% (868) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT.
About PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT
PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT is a high-enrollment elementary school in BRONX, New York. It enrolls 789 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 78% larger than the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 enrolls 40,459 students in 83 schools, including PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT.
Of every 100 students at PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT, about 85 are Hispanic. It is also 11% Black. For comparison, the population of Bronx County is roughly 55% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 27, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 67 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.8:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. A total of 782 students, or 99%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Bronx County, the average is 90%.
PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 18% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 28.3% and a predicted 38.5%.
The school is in Bronx County, where the median household earns about $48,676 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 23%. PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT shares Bronx County with 471 other public schools.
ACADEMY FOR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 43.6%; PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT's is 28.3%, ranking 8th of 8.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 8%, from 733 to 789. Students per teacher dropped from 14.1 in 2020-21 to 11.8 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,212 students
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSElementary · 1,091 students
- IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368)High · 953 students
- PS 95 SHEILA MENCHERElementary · 851 students
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
- ACADEMY FOR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE0.2 mi · 788
- BRILLA PAX CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 325
- BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 417
- KIPP FREEDOM CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 615
- IS 206 ANN MERSEREAU0.3 mi · 229
- PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 472
Frequently asked questions
About PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHTWhat is the total enrollment at PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT?
PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT enrolls approximately 789 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT serve?
PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT is approximately 11.8:1 (67 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT?
Student demographics at PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT are roughly 1% White, 85% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT in?
PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.