PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY

PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY is a K-5 school of well-populated scale in BRONX, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, enrolling 667 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 51% above the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 40,459 students. PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY reports that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 9% Black, 7% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.2%; this one delivers 40.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bronx County) reports that 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/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JHS 80 MOSHOLU PARKWAY (THE), roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY has ticked down 25%, going from 887 students in 2018 to 667 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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