PS 63 AUTHOR'S ACADEMY

Set in BRONX, New York, PS 63 AUTHOR'S ACADEMY is a mid-tier K-5 school, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9. It hosts 381 students across grades pre-K through 5.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 runs 70 schools in total, collectively educating 23,786 students. PS 63 AUTHOR'S ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PS 63 AUTHOR'S ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 63 AUTHOR'S ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bronx County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 63 AUTHOR'S ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MOTT HALL CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 63 AUTHOR'S ACADEMY comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

PS 63 AUTHOR'S ACADEMY operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 35%: 582 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 37% to 29%.

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