PS 88 S SILVERSTEIN LITTLE SPARROW SCHOOL

PS 88 S SILVERSTEIN LITTLE SPARROW SCHOOL is one of the micro-enrollment elementary schools in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, with 83 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 81% below the state mean of about 443.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, which oversees 70 schools and 23,786 students, PS 88 S SILVERSTEIN LITTLE SPARROW SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PS 88 S SILVERSTEIN LITTLE SPARROW SCHOOL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%; the rest looks like 24% Black. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 88 S SILVERSTEIN LITTLE SPARROW SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of +10.5 points.

Around the school, Bronx County reports that median household income runs about $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 88 S SILVERSTEIN LITTLE SPARROW SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: AECI II: NYC CHARTER HS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 88 S SILVERSTEIN LITTLE SPARROW SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 88 S SILVERSTEIN LITTLE SPARROW SCHOOL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 39.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 88 S SILVERSTEIN LITTLE SPARROW SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 43% since 2018, when it stood at 146 (now 83). Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 19% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 6.9:1 today.

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