ACADEMY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS

ACADEMY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS is one of the minimally staffed middle schools in BRONX, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, with 132 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 75% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, which oversees 41 schools and 13,625 students, ACADEMY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ACADEMY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS lists that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Black, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ACADEMY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 41.0%; this one comes in at 17.7%, -23.3 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate median household income runs about $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), ACADEMY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOUTH BRONX ACADEMY FOR APPLIED MEDIA, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ACADEMY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 47%: 248 students in 2018 compared to 132 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 today.

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