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What's the biggest difference between PS 340 and what you expected?
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Enrollment
552
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008703795
PS 340
25 W 195TH ST, BRONX, NY 10468 · (718) 220-1830 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL552 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
10.4:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
519 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 | 34 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 108 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
29%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
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
35.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% 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 340
PS 340's state test result (35.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 340 this school | 552 | 94.0% | 35.6% |
| HERMAN BADILLO BILINGUAL ACADEMY BUFFALO | 514 | 94.0% | 11.9% |
| D'YOUVILLE-PORTER CAMPUS BUFFALO | 521 | 94.0% | 10.9% |
| PS 7 ABRAHAM LINCOLN BROOKLYN | 589 | 95.4% | 34.6% |
| SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP BRONX | 557 | 96.2% | 40.3% |
| PS 65 BROOKLYN | 512 | 89.6% | 66.0% |
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 340 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #1,810 of 2,335 | #139 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,797 of 2,342 ▼ 8 | #150 of 212 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,587 of 2,343 ▲ 165 | #137 of 212 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 552 | #625 of 2,585 | #62 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #591 of 2,338 | #39 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.2% | #1,893 of 2,388 | #188 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.0% | #248 of 2,534 | #112 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.9% | #808 of 1,757 | #129 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
552
+32 (+6%) vs 2020
-4% since 2010-11, when it was 578
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 552 | 52.9 | 10.4:1 | 94% (519) |
| 2023-24 | 610 | 58.5 | 10.4:1 | 93% (570) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 36.9 | 12.5:1 | 91% (420) |
| 2020-21 | 520 | 43 | 12.1:1 | 90% (469) |
| 2017-18 | 656 | 51 | 12.9:1 | 88% (577) |
| 2015-16 | 647 | 52 | 12.4:1 | 83% (539) |
| 2010-11 | 578 | 42 | 13.8:1 | 84% (487) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 340.
About PS 340
PS 340 is a medium-sized elementary school in BRONX, New York, under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 552 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 runs 83 schools with a combined 40,459 students. PS 340 is one of them.
PS 340's enrollment is 84% Hispanic. It is also 9% Black, 3% Asian, and 3% White. For comparison, the population of Bronx County is roughly 55% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 29% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 52.9 full-time equivalents, or about 10.4 students per teacher. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 10.4:1 here. About 94% of students, or 519, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 340 receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, PS 340 falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 35.6% actual against 40.4% predicted.
Federal survey data for Bronx County show that the median household income is $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. Bronx County is home to 472 public schools and about 202,028 public school students.
DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL is located less than a tenth of a mile from PS 340. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, PS 340 ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
2024-25 enrollment was 552, a 6% increase from 520 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher fell from 12.1 to 10.4 over 4 years.
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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
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
- DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 377
- CELIA CRUZ BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC (THE)0.1 mi · 407
- KINGSBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 199
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS0.1 mi · 491
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS0.1 mi · 331
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS0.1 mi · 1,091
Frequently asked questions
About PS 340How many students attend PS 340?
PS 340 enrolls approximately 552 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 340 an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 340 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 340?
Approximately 10.4:1 students per teacher at PS 340.
How diverse is PS 340?
PS 340 reports a student body of 3% White, 84% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 340?
PS 340 is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 in Bronx County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.