PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Set in BRONX, New York, PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10. It enrolls 653 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS sits 47% larger than that benchmark.

PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is one of 83 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, a district that teaches 40,459 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder reads as 29% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS reports 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.6%; this one delivers 32.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bronx County) records that median household income runs about $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS is one campus in the mix.

PS 209 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS's enrollment has declined 31% since 2018, when it stood at 952 (now 653).

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the PS 85 GREAT EXPECTATIONS community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.