1
What's the biggest difference between PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY and what you expected?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
544
Middle
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8·NCES 360008506302
PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY
1111 PUGSLEY AVE, BRONX, NY 10472 · (718) 822-2780 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL544 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 47% of New York public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
493 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 182 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 165 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 197 | 36% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
44.9%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 44.9% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 43.3% |
% 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
45.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY
PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY's state test result (45.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY this school | 544 | 90.6% | 45.5% |
| MS 358 JAMAICA | 345 | 92.5% | 57.8% |
| ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS LONG ISLAND CITY | 382 | 84.8% | 60.6% |
| JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) BRONX | 778 | 85.9% | 49.6% |
| IS 10 HORACE GREELEY LONG ISLAND CITY | 596 | 87.8% | 59.0% |
| IS 238 SUSAN B ANTHONY ACADEMY HOLLIS | 820 | 85.1% | 45.6% |
Matched among New York middle 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 PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #514 of 766 | #23 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #576 of 768 ▼ 5 | #29 of 74 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #489 of 768 ▲ 8 | #31 of 74 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 544 | #328 of 796 | #7 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #420 of 683 | #30 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.8% | #135 of 688 | #2 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.6% | #133 of 773 | #63 of 75 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +60.9% | #7 of 168 | #1 of 9 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
544
-15 (-3%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 544 | 50.5 | 10.8:1 | 91% (493) |
| 2023-24 | 588 | 48 | 12.3:1 | 92% (542) |
| 2022-23 | 562 | 51.6 | 10.9:1 | 93% (520) |
| 2020-21 | 559 | 53 | 10.6:1 | 94% (526) |
| 2017-18 | 338 | 26 | 13.0:1 | 84% (283) |
| 2015-16 | 302 | 23 | 13.1:1 | 83% (251) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY.
About PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY
PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a mid-sized middle school in BRONX, New York, administered by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8. The school serves grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 544 students.
PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY is in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, a district with 21,621 students across 52 schools.
More than half of enrollment at PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY is Hispanic: 53%. The next largest groups are 27% Asian, 11% Black, 5% White, and 4% Native American. In Bronx County overall, the Hispanic share is about 55%. The diversity index for PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY is 64%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY reported 50.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 10.8:1. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is close to this figure. There are 493 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 91% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Bronx County is similar, at 90%.
Among New York public middle schools, PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY outscored 47%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 41.7%. PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY scores 45.5%.
In Bronx County, home to about 1,404,779 people, median household income comes to about $48,676, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Bronx County's 472 public schools enroll about 202,028 students and include PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY.
DR EMMETT W BASSETT SCHOOL (THE), less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks 6th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 3% decline, from 559 to 544.
Anyone can start a thread about open houses, carpools, and field trips at PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 # 8
- HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,087 students
- PS 71 ROSE E SCALAElementary · 1,079 students
- PS 14 SENATOR JOHN CALANDRAElementary · 718 students
- PS 36 UNIONPORTElementary · 660 students
- PS 152 EVERGREENElementary · 634 students
- PS 72 DR WILLIAM DORNEYElementary · 598 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
- DR EMMETT W BASSETT SCHOOL (THE)0.1 mi · 508
- PS 5830.2 mi · 436
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-NYC 120.3 mi · 94
- BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE0.3 mi · 790
- PS 36 UNIONPORT0.4 mi · 660
- GIRLS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW YORK0.4 mi · 94
Frequently asked questions
About PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMYHow many students attend PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 544 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY serve?
PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY is approximately 10.8:1 (51 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports a student body of 5% White, 53% Hispanic, 11% Black, 27% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8 in Bronx County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.