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Which teacher or staff member at PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
609
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008702204
PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE
2760 BRIGGS AVE, BRONX, NY 10458 · (718) 584-4450 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL609 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% 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.
- C+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
10.9:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
575 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 | 33 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (108).
Student demographics
34%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
43.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
37.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 28.0% |
% 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
31.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% 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 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE
PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE's state test result (31.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE this school | 609 | 94.4% | 31.5% |
| SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP BRONX | 557 | 96.2% | 40.3% |
| PS 279 CAPT MANUEL RIVERA JR BRONX | 638 | 97.5% | 50.9% |
| PS 28 MOUNT HOPE BRONX | 556 | 95.3% | 35.5% |
| LIME KILN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUFFERN | 584 | 90.8% | 16.7% |
| PS 196 BRONX | 662 | 95.3% | 28.4% |
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 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.5% | #1,967 of 2,335 | #162 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,933 of 2,342 ▲ 129 | #170 of 212 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,639 of 2,343 ▲ 243 | #143 of 212 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 609 | #428 of 2,585 | #42 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #798 of 2,338 | #57 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.6% | #1,797 of 2,388 | #174 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.4% | #224 of 2,534 | #102 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.2% | #220 of 1,757 | #70 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
609
-116 (-16%) vs 2020
-51% since 2010-11, when it was 1,252
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 609 | 55.8 | 10.9:1 | 94% (575) |
| 2023-24 | 635 | 56.4 | 11.3:1 | 96% (607) |
| 2022-23 | 633 | 51.8 | 12.2:1 | 94% (593) |
| 2020-21 | 725 | 62 | 11.7:1 | 90% (650) |
| 2017-18 | 911 | 66 | 13.8:1 | 92% (838) |
| 2015-16 | 1,093 | 75 | 14.6:1 | 83% (904) |
| 2010-11 | 1,252 | 86 | 14.6:1 | 96% (1,198) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE.
About PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE
PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE is a medium-sized elementary school located in BRONX, New York. The school's 609 students are in pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
A total of 83 schools make up NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, with 40,459 students enrolled.
About 80% of the student body at PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE is Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 15% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Bronx County's population at about 55%. PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE's diversity index is 34%, against a US figure of 70%.
PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE employs 55.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 10.9:1. This ratio sits 1.9 below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 94% in 2024-25.
allk12 grades PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE a C-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 31.5% actual against 40.3% predicted.
PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE is located in Bronx County, where the median household income is $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE is one of 472 public schools in the county.
The next-closest public school is PS/IS 54, about 0.2 miles away. PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE ranks 7th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 31.5% against a local average of 39.9%.
Locale data from NCES put PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Enrollment at PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE dropped 16% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 725 to 609 students.
Community posts for PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- PS/IS 540.2 mi · 329
- PS 246 POE CENTER0.3 mi · 455
- KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL II0.3 mi · 1,008
- PS 3400.4 mi · 552
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS0.4 mi · 331
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS0.4 mi · 491
Frequently asked questions
About PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POEHow many students attend PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE?
PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE enrolls approximately 609 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE serve?
PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE.
How diverse is PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE?
PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE reports a student body of 2% White, 80% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE?
PS 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE 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.