PS/IS 224

PS/IS 224 is an intermediate school of rural-scale scale in BRONX, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, teacheing 169 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so PS/IS 224 sits 68% leaner than that benchmark.

PS/IS 224 is one of 41 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, a district that serves 13,625 students overall.

Demographically, PS/IS 224 records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 28% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, PS/IS 224 logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS/IS 224 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -10.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Bronx County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 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/IS 224 is one campus in the mix.

ACADEMY OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS/IS 224. On composite proficiency, PS/IS 224 comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

PS/IS 224 operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. PS/IS 224's enrollment has edged down 53% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 169). The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 72% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 in 2025.

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