PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD

PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD is a K-5 school of high-enrollment scale in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, hosting 729 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 65% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 runs 70 schools in total, collectively educating 23,786 students. PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Black. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD has 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bronx County (around 90%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.6%; this one delivers 30.5%.

In the surrounding community, 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. PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 41%: 1,231 students in 2018 compared to 729 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 25% to 18% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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