PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS

PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS, a big primary school in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, enrolls 1,091 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 146% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 83 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 (40,459 students total), PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS shows that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 6% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.0%; this one delivers 44.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bronx County put the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 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 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS is one.

KINGSBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS has ticked down 35%, going from 1,669 students in 2018 to 1,091 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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