AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL

As a cozy junior high in MOUNT VERNON, New York, AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL teaches 314 students from grades 5 through 8, one of the schools within AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 531.

AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (95%) are Black. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Westchester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.9%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate median household income runs about $118,976, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 255 public schools in Westchester County (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students).

The closest other public school is DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 43.1%.

AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location. AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 314). Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 87% to 95%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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