ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL

ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is one of the compact secondary schools in BRONX, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, with 412 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7 comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 13,625 students; ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 93% 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, ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of -3.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Bronx County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is one.

BRONX HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 461 students in 2018 compared to 412 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 75% to 68%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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