PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL

As a tight-knit elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL instructs 358 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 runs 70 schools in total, collectively educating 23,786 students. PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL logs that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 23% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bronx County (around 90%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of -9.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Bronx County reports that 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 35 FRANZ SIEGEL is one.

The closest other public school is SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 46.2%.

PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL has fell 46%, going from 665 students in 2018 to 358 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.