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Enrollment
630
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7·NCES 360008402056
PS 5 PORT MORRIS
564 JACKSON AVE, BRONX, NY 10455 · (718) 292-2683 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL630 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% 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.
- B-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
10.0:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
613 students
DISTRICT 95% · 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 | 29 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 38 | 6% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 97 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 61% smaller than its 8th grade class (97).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
40.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 31.0% |
% 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
34.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 5 PORT MORRIS
PS 5 PORT MORRIS's state test result (34.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 5 PORT MORRIS this school | 630 | 97.3% | 34.4% |
| PS 53 BASHEER QUISIM BRONX | 600 | 96.2% | 34.9% |
| PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS BRONX | 653 | 96.3% | 32.1% |
| PS 204 MORRIS HEIGHTS BRONX | 576 | 92.7% | 62.0% |
| BRONX ACADEMY OF PROMISE CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 601 | 97.3% | 54.5% |
| PS/MS 29 MELROSE SCHOOL BRONX | 606 | 96.0% | 33.9% |
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 5 PORT MORRIS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #1,865 of 2,335 | #150 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,841 of 2,342 ▲ 122 | #153 of 212 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,772 of 2,343 ▼ 69 | #154 of 212 ▼ 27 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 630 | #391 of 2,585 | #38 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #435 of 2,338 | #31 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.0% | #1,567 of 2,388 | #145 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.3% | #71 of 2,534 | #41 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.4% | #994 of 1,757 | #138 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
630
+15 (+2%) vs 2020
+13% since 2010-11, when it was 556
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 630 | 63 | 10.0:1 | 97% (613) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 59.8 | 10.6:1 | 96% (611) |
| 2022-23 | 608 | 58.3 | 10.4:1 | 96% (584) |
| 2020-21 | 615 | 58 | 10.6:1 | 97% (597) |
| 2017-18 | 719 | 53 | 13.6:1 | 96% (688) |
| 2015-16 | 759 | 48 | 15.8:1 | 97% (736) |
| 2010-11 | 556 | 40 | 13.9:1 | 99% (552) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 5 PORT MORRIS.
About PS 5 PORT MORRIS
PS 5 PORT MORRIS is a medium-sized elementary school located in BRONX, New York. Enrollment is 630 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 8. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 42% larger than average.
PS 5 PORT MORRIS is part of a district of 41 schools: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, with 13,625 students.
Roughly 72% of students at PS 5 PORT MORRIS are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 26% Black. Bronx County's residents are about 55% Hispanic, 17 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 41% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.0:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 10.0:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at PS 5 PORT MORRIS is 97%.
allk12 grades PS 5 PORT MORRIS a C. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 39.2% at PS 5 PORT MORRIS; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 34.4%.
Bronx County has these Census figures: the median household income is $48,676, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 23%. Bronx County is home to 472 public schools and about 202,028 public school students.
The next-closest public school is STOREFRONT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. PS 5 PORT MORRIS is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. PS 5 PORT MORRIS ranks 7th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 34.4% against a local average of 46.8%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 615 in 2020-21 to 630 in 2024-25, a change of 15 students.
The PS 5 PORT MORRIS community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 # 7
- HERO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 733 students
- LABORATORY SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND TECHNOLOGY (THE): X223High · 646 students
- PS/MS 29 MELROSE SCHOOLElementary · 606 students
- SOUTH BRONX PREPARATORY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 603 students
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SECONDARY SCHOOL-BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGEHigh · 596 students
- PS/MS 31 WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON (THE)Elementary · 538 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
- STOREFRONT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 260
- PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL0.2 mi · 409
- UNIVERSITY PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 424
- JM RAPPORT SCHOOL FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT0.2 mi · 408
- PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL0.2 mi · 303
- HOSTOS-LINCOLN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE0.2 mi · 460
Frequently asked questions
About PS 5 PORT MORRISHow many students attend PS 5 PORT MORRIS?
PS 5 PORT MORRIS enrolls approximately 630 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does PS 5 PORT MORRIS serve?
PS 5 PORT MORRIS serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does PS 5 PORT MORRIS have?
PS 5 PORT MORRIS employs 63 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 5 PORT MORRIS?
Student demographics at PS 5 PORT MORRIS are roughly 1% White, 72% Hispanic, 26% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is PS 5 PORT MORRIS in?
PS 5 PORT MORRIS is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.