P.S. 105 Sen Abraham Bernstein

The 2025 numbers are the highest in the school's eight-year data set: ELA proficiency jumped to 41.6% (from 19.4% the prior year) and math climbed to 49.1% (from 31.7%). That trajectory is genuinely encouraging, though both subjects still sit below the District 11 averages of about 57% ELA and 56% math, so there's still ground to cover. The grade-level breakdown tells an interesting story — Grade 3 lags (19.2% ELA, 37.3% math) while Grades 4 and 5 perform much more competitively (Grade 4: 48% ELA, 60% math; Grade 5: 53.5% ELA, 50% math). The school's overall quality score of 1.81 out of 4 lands below the district average of 2.25, but the recent upward swing in both subjects suggests real momentum heading into the next school year.

What stands out here is the strength of relationships. Parent-teacher trust scores 95%, parent-principal trust hits 96%, and 94% of families report strong relationships with the school — numbers that match or beat many higher-scoring schools. Teacher-reported safety is 95% and 92% rate instruction quality positively. The discipline record is unusually clean: zero suspensions across the last three reported years. The thing parents should know is attendance — at 89.5% it's a bit below the district's 91.2%, and chronic absenteeism sits at 54.3%, meaning more than half of students missed enough school to be flagged. That's a real challenge that ripples into test scores and learning continuity, and it's notably higher among Asian students (64.4%) here. Parent satisfaction at 87% is solid but trails the district's 93%, which may partly reflect those attendance and academic pressures families see firsthand.

P.S. 105 serves a student body that's 62% Hispanic, 15% White, 13% Asian, and 9% Black, with an economic need index of 86.4 — meaning most students come from lower-income households. Eighteen percent of students have IEPs, which is above the city average and reflects the school's commitment to inclusion. PTA fundraising lands at about $22 per student, just slightly below the district norm of $24, suggesting a reasonably active parent base given the demographic. The 364 family survey responses (a 57% response rate) is a healthy turnout that shows families are engaged enough to weigh in, even if satisfaction scores come in a notch below peers.

Pelham Parkway-Van Nest is a working- and middle-class neighborhood with a median household income around $72,600 and a poverty rate near 16%. Most residents rent (homeownership is just under 23%), and the share of households with children sits at about 17% — modest but meaningful for an elementary school zone. About 28% of adults have a bachelor's degree or higher, and the median home value lands around $415,000, signaling a neighborhood that mixes long-time homeowners with newer immigrant families and renters priced out of flashier parts of the Bronx.

Families have it pretty easy on transit — three subway stations are all within a seven-minute walk: Pelham Parkway and Bronx Park East on the 2 and 5 lines, and Morris Park on the 5. That kind of coverage makes car-free drop-offs realistic for most families in the zone.