PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10. The school instructs 472 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, which oversees 83 schools and 40,459 students, PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). The remainder comes out to 15% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.7%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bronx County put median household earnings sit near $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 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PS 209 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 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 9 RYER AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 44% since 2018, when it stood at 845 (now 472).

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