PS 37 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL

Set in BRONX, New York, PS 37 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10. It teaches 442 students across grades K through 8.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, which oversees 83 schools and 40,459 students, PS 37 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, PS 37 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Beyond that, the school reports 17% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, PS 37 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 37 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.6%; this one delivers 36.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bronx County) reports that median household earnings sit near $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 37 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368), roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 37 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. PS 37 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 647 (now 442). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 73% to 81%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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