PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Set in BRONX, New York, PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN is a reasonably sized elementary campus, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9. It instructs 495 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 70 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 (23,786 students total), PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN records that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 41% Black. Compared to Bronx County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -15.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 2, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.6%.

PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN has contracted 22%, going from 637 students in 2018 to 495 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 50% to 41%.

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