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Enrollment
880
Elementary
DISTRICT 555 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11·NCES 360008802364
PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS
2385 OLINVILLE AVE, BRONX, NY 10467 · (718) 652-4959 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL880 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
12.8:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
792 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 75 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 138 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 127 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 131 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 141 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 134 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 133 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (138) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (133).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
87.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
83.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 83.0% |
| 2023-24 | 70.0% | 76.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+31.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 31 points, placing it in New York's top 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 96 RICHARD RODGERS
PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS's state test result (73.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS this school | 880 | 90.0% | 73.1% |
| NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 803 | 93.3% | 51.3% |
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 899 | 91.0% | 61.0% |
| PS 103 HECTOR FONTANEZ BRONX | 774 | 94.1% | 50.4% |
| VOICE CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW YORK LONG ISLAND CITY | 849 | 92.2% | 52.5% |
| FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II BRONX | 858 | 92.8% | 50.5% |
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 96 RICHARD RODGERS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.1% | #303 of 2,335 | #31 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #264 of 2,342 ▲ 127 | #32 of 212 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #118 of 2,343 ▲ 137 | #23 of 212 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 880 | #90 of 2,585 | #8 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,540 of 2,338 | #125 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.7% | #892 of 2,388 | #34 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.0% | #415 of 2,534 | #152 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.0% | #1,279 of 1,757 | #144 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
880
+20 (+2%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 1,039
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 880 | 69 | 12.8:1 | 90% (792) |
| 2023-24 | 881 | 66.1 | 13.3:1 | 87% (766) |
| 2022-23 | 830 | 64.2 | 12.9:1 | 85% (709) |
| 2020-21 | 860 | 60 | 14.3:1 | 79% (680) |
| 2017-18 | 957 | 73.1 | 13.1:1 | 82% (783) |
| 2015-16 | 972 | 68 | 14.3:1 | 69% (671) |
| 2010-11 | 1,039 | 70 | 14.8:1 | 90% (936) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS.
About PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS
At 2385 OLINVILLE AVE in BRONX, New York, PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS operates as a large elementary school. The school serves 880 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 99% larger than that.
PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS is a school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11. The district has 62 schools and 30,138 students.
At PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS, Hispanic students make up 61% of the student body. The remaining shares are 20% Black and 15% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 57% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 69 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 12.8:1. That matches the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York fairly closely. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 90%. For comparison, public schools in Bronx County average 90%.
allk12 grades PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations places PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS in the top 10% of New York schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 31.2 points above it (73.1% actual, 41.9% predicted).
PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS is located in Bronx County, where the median household income is $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS is one of 472 public schools in the county.
BRONX PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the public school closest to PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS, about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS ranks 1st of 9 nearby schools, at 73.1% versus a 44.6% average.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 860 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 880. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.3:1 to 12.8:1.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 #11
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- PS 89Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS/MS 194Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS 106 PARKCHESTERElementary · 822 students
- JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)Middle · 778 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
- BRONX PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 302
- PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT0.2 mi · 281
- BRONX GREEN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 356
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE AND INNOVATION0.5 mi · 372
- ASTOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMY0.5 mi · 429
- COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE FOR MATH AND SCIENCE0.5 mi · 563
Frequently asked questions
About PS 96 RICHARD RODGERSHow large is PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS?
PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS enrolls approximately 880 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS.
What is the student diversity at PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS?
Student demographics at PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS are roughly 15% White, 61% Hispanic, 20% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS public or private?
PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.