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Which teacher or staff member at PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
459
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8·NCES 360008502285
PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL
560 THERIOT AVE, BRONX, NY 10473 · (718) 378-4736 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL459 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% 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.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
12.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
410 students
DISTRICT 90% · 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 | 40 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 | 37.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 41.0% |
% 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
34.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% 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 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL
PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL's state test result (34.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL this school | 459 | 89.3% | 34.1% |
| BRONX ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 428 | 90.7% | 41.1% |
| CYPRESS HILLS ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 485 | 88.2% | 62.4% |
| BOLD CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 428 | 88.8% | 70.8% |
| PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN BROOKLYN | 431 | 92.3% | 51.5% |
| PS 100 ISAAC CLASON BRONX | 412 | 92.2% | 30.8% |
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 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.1% | #1,874 of 2,335 | #152 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,753 of 2,342 ▼ 124 | #141 of 212 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,910 of 2,343 ▼ 77 | #171 of 212 ▼ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 459 | #1,031 of 2,585 | #87 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #1,585 of 2,338 | #130 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.3% | #1,386 of 2,388 | #111 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.3% | #440 of 2,534 | #155 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.6% | #451 of 1,757 | #107 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
459
-106 (-19%) vs 2020
-24% since 2010-11, when it was 602
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 459 | 35.6 | 12.9:1 | 89% (410) |
| 2023-24 | 436 | 35.6 | 12.3:1 | 89% (389) |
| 2022-23 | 494 | 33.7 | 14.7:1 | 87% (429) |
| 2020-21 | 565 | 40 | 14.1:1 | 83% (471) |
| 2017-18 | 609 | 43 | 14.2:1 | 89% (539) |
| 2015-16 | 633 | 42 | 15.1:1 | 87% (550) |
| 2010-11 | 602 | 45 | 13.4:1 | 91% (545) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL.
About PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL
PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in BRONX, New York. The school had 459 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8 runs 52 schools with a combined 21,621 students. PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL is one of them.
Hispanic students are the majority at PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL, with 71% of enrollment. It is also 18% Black, 4% Pacific Islander, 3% Asian, and 2% White. Bronx County's residents are about 55% Hispanic, 16 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 46% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL is 35.6 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 12.9:1. That is close to the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Around 89% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
The allk12 Grade for PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL is C. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 26% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL's results are 8.1 points below predicted: 34.1% against 42.1%.
Within Bronx County, the median household income is $48,676, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Besides PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL, Bronx County has 471 other public schools.
The school nearest to PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL is GRAND CONCOURSE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL ranks 6th of 9 on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL's enrollment declined 19%, to 459. The number of students per teacher fell from 14.1 to 12.9 over 4 years.
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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 # 8
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- PS 152 EVERGREENElementary · 634 students
- PS 72 DR WILLIAM DORNEYElementary · 598 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
- GRAND CONCOURSE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 698
- PS 1820.2 mi · 399
- BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 190
- WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE0.3 mi · 168
- ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH0.3 mi · 468
- PS 100 ISAAC CLASON0.4 mi · 412
Frequently asked questions
About PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOLHow large is PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL?
PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL enrolls approximately 459 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL have?
PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 71% Hispanic, 18% Black, 3% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL public or private?
PS 69 JOURNEY PREP SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.