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Enrollment
617
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008702244
PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS
341 E 207TH ST, BRONX, NY 10467 · (718) 920-1100 · Bronx County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
13.6:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
556 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
57%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% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
46.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp 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 46 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 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 45.0% |
% 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
39.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS
PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS's state test result (39.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS this school | 617 | 90.1% | 39.7% |
| PS 90 HORACE MANN RICHMOND HILL | 586 | 91.5% | 45.3% |
| PS 29 COLLEGE POINT | 682 | 90.5% | 44.9% |
| PS 54 HILLSIDE RICHMOND HILL | 462 | 90.0% | 53.1% |
| PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD LONG ISLAND CITY | 505 | 85.7% | 40.1% |
| PS 105 SENATOR ABRAHAM BERNSTEIN BRONX | 659 | 93.9% | 33.7% |
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 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #1,635 of 2,335 | #119 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,596 of 2,342 ▼ 120 | #123 of 212 ▼ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,640 of 2,343 ▼ 90 | #144 of 212 ▼ 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #410 of 2,585 | #39 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #1,771 of 2,338 | #145 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.2% | #860 of 2,388 | #32 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.1% | #410 of 2,534 | #151 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #947 of 1,757 | #135 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
617
-51 (-8%) vs 2020
-7% since 2010-11, when it was 661
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 617 | 45.5 | 13.6:1 | 90% (556) |
| 2023-24 | 626 | 46.4 | 13.5:1 | 90% (564) |
| 2022-23 | 593 | 42.6 | 13.9:1 | 85% (507) |
| 2020-21 | 668 | 46 | 14.5:1 | 84% (563) |
| 2017-18 | 710 | 49 | 14.5:1 | 86% (608) |
| 2015-16 | 693 | 42 | 16.5:1 | 76% (524) |
| 2010-11 | 661 | 45 | 14.7:1 | 86% (571) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS.
About PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS
PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in BRONX, New York. The school had 617 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
Enrollment across the 83 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 totals 40,459 students.
At 61%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS combined. Smaller groups are 20% Asian, 8% Black, 7% White, and 2% multiracial. By the diversity index, PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS comes in at 57%.
Federal data list 45.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS in 2024-25, for a ratio of 13.6:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, lower than at this school. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 90%. That is close to the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
allk12 grades PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS a C+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 41.9% for a school in New York with PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS's free or reduced-price lunch share. PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS posts 39.7%.
County data help place the school in context: in Bronx County, median household income is about $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 23%. PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS is among the 472 public schools in Bronx County.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS at 5th of 8.
In the federal locale system, PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students declined from 668 to 617 over 4 years.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD0.1 mi · 381
- BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 492
- BEDFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 439
- JHS 80 MOSHOLU PARKWAY (THE)0.3 mi · 562
- PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY0.4 mi · 667
- PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD0.4 mi · 593
Frequently asked questions
About PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTSHow large is PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS?
PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS enrolls approximately 617 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS serve?
PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS is approximately 13.6:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS?
Student demographics at PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS are roughly 7% White, 61% Hispanic, 8% Black, 20% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS?
PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS 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.