PS 78 ANNE HUTCHINSON

PS 78 ANNE HUTCHINSON is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in BRONX, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, with 613 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 38% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, which oversees 62 schools and 30,138 students, PS 78 ANNE HUTCHINSON is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PS 78 ANNE HUTCHINSON records that Black students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school logs 37% Hispanic, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 78 ANNE HUTCHINSON performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 27.8%, a residual of -13.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate median household income runs about $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which PS 78 ANNE HUTCHINSON is one.

The closest other public school is LEADERS OF TOMORROW, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 78 ANNE HUTCHINSON. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 78 ANNE HUTCHINSON at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 78 ANNE HUTCHINSON has fell 26%, going from 823 students in 2018 to 613 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 72% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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