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AMERICAN DREAM 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 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL
As a reasonably sized four-year high school in BRONX, New York, AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL instructs 603 students from grades 6 through 12, overseen by AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL.
Operationally, AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL answers to AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
On the student-mix side, AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 6% Black. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.2%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate median household earnings sit near $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.
AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL operates from a downtown location. As a public charter, AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 76%: 342 students in 2018 compared to 603 in 2025.
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