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ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 44 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL
Located at 677 E 141ST ST, in BRONX, New York, ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL is an intimate elementary school that hosts 343 students (grades K through 8), part of ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 23% smaller than typical.
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
Demographically, ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 43% Black, 2% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL 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 39.9%; ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL posts 83.5%, +43.5 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Bronx County put the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
PS 65 MOTHER HALE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 51.4%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting. ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Looking at the recent track record. ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 32% since 2018, when it stood at 506 (now 343).
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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