PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD

PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11. Current enrollment sits at 593 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, which oversees 62 schools and 30,138 students, PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD records that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 42% Black, 2% Native American, 2% White, 2% Asian. Compared to Bronx County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.1%; this one delivers 30.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Bronx County put median household earnings sit near $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

The closest other public school is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-NYC 5, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD. On composite proficiency, PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 36%: 921 students in 2018 compared to 593 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 49% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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