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Enrollment
782
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008702179
PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III
3050 WEBSTER AVE, BRONX, NY 10458 · (718) 515-9370 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL782 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.3:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
742 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 | 16 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 121 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 120 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 118 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 46% smaller than its 8th grade class (118).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 24.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III
PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III's state test result (29.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III this school | 782 | 94.9% | 29.5% |
| PS 95 SHEILA MENCHER BRONX | 851 | 94.1% | 35.3% |
| PS 94 KINGS COLLEGE SCHOOL BRONX | 748 | 95.9% | 19.4% |
| VOICE CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW YORK LONG ISLAND CITY | 849 | 92.2% | 52.5% |
| PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY BRONX | 667 | 94.6% | 40.9% |
| PS 214 BRONX | 814 | 96.4% | 35.0% |
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/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.5% | #2,027 of 2,335 | #175 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,871 of 2,342 ▲ 270 | #162 of 212 ▲ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,778 of 2,343 ▲ 104 | #160 of 212 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 782 | #166 of 2,585 | #18 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #995 of 2,338 | #74 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.5% | #1,584 of 2,388 | #147 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.9% | #202 of 2,534 | #97 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.8% | #376 of 1,757 | #97 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
782
-71 (-8%) vs 2020
-32% since 2010-11, when it was 1,143
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 782 | 68.9 | 11.3:1 | 95% (742) |
| 2023-24 | 766 | 71.8 | 10.7:1 | 95% (731) |
| 2022-23 | 774 | 72.3 | 10.7:1 | 93% (722) |
| 2020-21 | 853 | 68 | 12.5:1 | 95% (814) |
| 2017-18 | 1,069 | 70 | 15.3:1 | 95% (1,014) |
| 2015-16 | 1,098 | 75 | 14.6:1 | 93% (1,022) |
| 2010-11 | 1,143 | 73 | 15.7:1 | 92% (1,049) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III.
About PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III
PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III operates as a high-enrollment elementary school in BRONX, New York. It serves 782 students in pre-K through 8. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 77% larger than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 has 83 schools and 40,459 students, and PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III is one of those schools.
At 76%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III combined. After that, the student body is 11% Black, 7% Asian, and 4% White. Among all residents of Bronx County, the Hispanic share is about 55%. PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III has a diversity index of 40%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 68.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III was 11.3:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 95%.
PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 18% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III is 10.6 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Bronx County show that median household income is about $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County, which together enroll about 202,028 students.
Of nearby public schools, PS 168 is the closest, at less than a tenth of a mile. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 51.1%, higher than PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III's 29.5%.
In the federal locale system, PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 853 in 2020-21 and 782 in 2024-25, a decrease of 71 students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.3:1.
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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 #10
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,212 students
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSElementary · 1,091 students
- IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368)High · 953 students
- PS 95 SHEILA MENCHERElementary · 851 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
- PS 1680.0 mi · 577
- BEDFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 439
- PS 8 ISAAC VARIAN0.3 mi · 600
- BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 492
- GIRLS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE BRONX II0.4 mi · 492
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD0.4 mi · 381
Frequently asked questions
About PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN IIIWhat is the total enrollment at PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III?
PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III enrolls approximately 782 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III serve?
PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III have?
PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III employs 69 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the student diversity at PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III?
Student demographics at PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III are roughly 4% White, 76% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III in?
PS/MS 20 PO GEORGE J WERDAN III is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10.
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