STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE)

STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) is one of the small primary schools in BRONX, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, with 271 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) sits 39% smaller than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 comprises 62 schools with combined enrollment of 30,138 students; STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) is among them.

In terms of who attends, STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) reports that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 19% White, 18% Asian, 16% Black. That is meaningfully less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 80% of students at STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Bronx County's rate of about 90%.

After controlling for student poverty, STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.4%; STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) posts 77.2%, +31.8 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bronx County put the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the mix.

BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE). On composite proficiency, STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) has edged up 66%, going from 163 students in 2018 to 271 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 64% to 44%.

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