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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY administration to hear?
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Enrollment
603
Elementary
DISTRICT 555 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11·NCES 360008806217
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY
1640 BRONXDALE AVE, BRONX, NY 10462 · (718) 409-3001 · Bronx County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL603 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test 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
12.3:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
508 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 47 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 93 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 49% smaller than its 8th grade class (93).
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
53.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
62.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 56.1% |
% 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
51.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY's state test result (51.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY this school | 603 | 84.2% | 51.8% |
| PS 72 DR WILLIAM DORNEY BRONX | 598 | 83.8% | 40.8% |
| PS 304 EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL BRONX | 551 | 76.8% | 62.3% |
| PS 22 GRANITEVILLE STATEN ISLAND | 717 | 83.8% | 39.8% |
| PS 105 SENATOR ABRAHAM BERNSTEIN BRONX | 659 | 93.9% | 33.7% |
| PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS RICHMOND HILL | 470 | 79.8% | 84.0% |
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 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #1,089 of 2,335 | #71 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #996 of 2,342 ▲ 62 | #69 of 212 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,206 of 2,343 ▼ 223 | #94 of 212 ▼ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 603 | #450 of 2,585 | #44 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #1,373 of 2,338 | #114 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.2% | #858 of 2,388 | #31 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.2% | #641 of 2,534 | #189 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.9% | #1,416 of 1,757 | #147 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
603
-37 (-6%) vs 2020
+189% since 2010-11, when it was 209
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 603 | 49.2 | 12.3:1 | 84% (508) |
| 2023-24 | 602 | 54.4 | 11.1:1 | 82% (496) |
| 2022-23 | 599 | 52.2 | 11.5:1 | 77% (464) |
| 2020-21 | 640 | 44 | 14.6:1 | 80% (512) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 42 | 15.3:1 | 76% (485) |
| 2015-16 | 627 | 38 | 16.5:1 | 79% (498) |
| 2010-11 | 209 | 14 | 14.9:1 | 75% (156) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY.
About PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY is one of the public schools in BRONX, New York. It is a mid-sized elementary school. The school covers kindergarten through 8 and reported 603 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 36% above that mark.
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY sits within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, which has 62 schools and 30,138 students.
About 62% of the student body at PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY is Hispanic. Other groups make up 17% White, 11% Asian, and 8% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY reports a ratio of 12.3 students per teacher, from 49.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Lunch program data show 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 63% of New York public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY is 7.8 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
The school's county is Bronx County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $48,676 a year, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 23%. PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY shares Bronx County with 471 other public schools.
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY is less than a tenth of a mile from ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 2, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY ranks 6th of 9 nearby schools, at 51.8% versus a 62.5% average.
In the federal locale system, PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 6%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.6:1 in 2020-21, and 12.3:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 96 RICHARD RODGERSElementary · 880 students
- PS 106 PARKCHESTERElementary · 822 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
- ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 20.0 mi · 342
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZ0.3 mi · 1,451
- BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 20.3 mi · 528
- STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 271
- LINDEN TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 300
- JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)0.5 mi · 778
Frequently asked questions
About PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMYHow large is PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY?
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY enrolls approximately 603 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY serve?
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY have?
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
What is the student diversity at PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY?
Student demographics at PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY are roughly 17% White, 62% Hispanic, 8% Black, 11% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY in?
PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.