PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE)

PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE) operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10. Current enrollment sits at 352 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE) is one of 83 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, a district that educates 40,459 students overall.

On demographics, PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE) logs that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 30% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE) shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE) is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.8%; PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE) posts 19.5%, -19.3 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE) is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

PS 23 NEW CHILDREN'S SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE) comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 59 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (THE) has edged down 39%, going from 576 students in 2018 to 352 in 2025.

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