PS 360
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (47).
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 22.0% | 28.0% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% 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%.
Schools most like PS 360
PS 360's state test result (29.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 360 this school | 278 | 96.4% | 29.1% |
| LUCERO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRONX | 284 | 96.8% | 17.8% |
| PS 291 BRONX | 311 | 99.0% | 47.4% |
| BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 291 | 93.1% | 50.8% |
| OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 3 CORONA | 284 | 97.5% | 36.0% |
| PS 98 SHORAC KAPPOCK NEW YORK | 288 | 90.3% | 31.9% |
Where PS 360 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.1% | #2,041 of 2,335 | #180 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,980 of 2,342 ▲ 84 | #175 of 212 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,979 of 2,343 ▲ 115 | #176 of 212 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 278 | #2,109 of 2,585 | #185 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #537 of 2,338 | #36 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.3% | #2,053 of 2,388 | #198 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.4% | #122 of 2,534 | #62 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.8% | #88 of 1,757 | #27 of 153 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 278 | 27 | 10.3:1 | 96% (268) |
| 2023-24 | 310 | 26 | 11.9:1 | 95% (293) |
| 2022-23 | 305 | 25 | 12.2:1 | 92% (282) |
| 2020-21 | 362 | 28 | 12.9:1 | 92% (333) |
| 2017-18 | 486 | 37 | 13.1:1 | 94% (458) |
| 2015-16 | 507 | 34 | 14.9:1 | 88% (446) |
| 2010-11 | 480 | 36 | 13.3:1 | 93% (447) |
About PS 360
PS 360 runs as a small elementary school in BRONX, New York. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 278 students. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 37% lower.
PS 360 is one school in an 83-school district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, which enrolls 40,459 students.
PS 360 is 88% Hispanic by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 8% Black and 2% White. In Bronx County overall, about 55% of residents are Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 360 scores 22%.
Its staff includes 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.3 students per teacher. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 96% of students at PS 360 can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
The model predicts 39.5% for a school in New York with PS 360's free or reduced-price lunch share. PS 360 posts 29.1%.
In Bronx County, median household income comes to about $48,676, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 23%. The county's public schools total 472, with about 202,028 students.
NEW SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND JOURNALISM (THE), less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, PS 360 is 8th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 23% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The number of students per teacher dropped from 12.9 to 10.3 over 4 years.
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