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Enrollment
653
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008705139
PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS
2400 MARION AVE, BRONX, NY 10458 · (718) 584-5275 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL653 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% 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
11.0:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
629 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 | 47 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (96).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
45.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +19.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 26.0% |
% 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
32.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS
PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS's state test result (32.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS this school | 653 | 96.3% | 32.1% |
| PS/MS 29 MELROSE SCHOOL BRONX | 606 | 96.0% | 33.9% |
| PS 5 PORT MORRIS BRONX | 630 | 97.3% | 34.4% |
| BRONX ACADEMY OF PROMISE CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 601 | 97.3% | 54.5% |
| PS 53 BASHEER QUISIM BRONX | 600 | 96.2% | 34.9% |
| PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL LONG ISLAND CITY | 554 | 97.3% | 22.3% |
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 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.1% | #1,957 of 2,335 | #161 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,635 of 2,342 ▲ 468 | #129 of 212 ▲ 55 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,589 of 2,343 ▲ 296 | #139 of 212 ▲ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 653 | #353 of 2,585 | #35 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #826 of 2,338 | #62 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.1% | #1,428 of 2,388 | #118 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.3% | #126 of 2,534 | #65 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.4% | #257 of 1,757 | #82 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
653
-116 (-15%) vs 2020
-42% since 2010-11, when it was 1,131
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 653 | 59.4 | 11.0:1 | 96% (629) |
| 2023-24 | 647 | 58.8 | 11.0:1 | 97% (626) |
| 2022-23 | 641 | 59.6 | 10.8:1 | 96% (613) |
| 2020-21 | 769 | 71 | 10.8:1 | 96% (735) |
| 2017-18 | 952 | 90 | 10.6:1 | 96% (911) |
| 2015-16 | 1,017 | 93 | 10.9:1 | 95% (970) |
| 2010-11 | 1,131 | 109 | 10.4:1 | 98% (1,113) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
About PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS
In BRONX, New York, part of Bronx County, PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is an elementary school. It reported 653 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is among 83 schools run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, which serves 40,459 students.
At PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS, 68% of students are Hispanic. The remaining students are 29% Black. Census figures show Bronx County is about 55% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 45%.
The school's 59.4 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. The school has 96% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS outscored 25%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is 7.4 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 32.1% actual, 39.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Looking at the county, Bronx County, the median household earns about $48,676 a year, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 23%. PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS shares Bronx County with 471 other public schools.
The closest school to PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is PS 209, located about 0.2 miles away. PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS ranks 7th of 8 nearby schools, at 32.1% versus a 38.8% average.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
The school's enrollment decreased 15% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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 #10
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,212 students
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSElementary · 1,091 students
- IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368)High · 953 students
- PS 95 SHEILA MENCHERElementary · 851 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
- PS 2090.2 mi · 167
- JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY0.2 mi · 392
- PS 159 LUIS MUMOZ MARIN BILING0.2 mi · 133
- IS 2540.3 mi · 406
- PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 472
- ACADEMY FOR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE0.3 mi · 788
Frequently asked questions
About PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONSHow large is PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS?
PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS enrolls approximately 653 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS serve?
PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is approximately 11.0:1 (59 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS?
PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS reports a student body of 1% White, 68% Hispanic, 29% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS public or private?
PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.