ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH

ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH is one of the modestly sized high schools in BRONX, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, with 468 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH sits 30% smaller than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, which oversees 52 schools and 21,621 students, ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH reports that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 20% Black, 7% Asian, 4% White, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH shows 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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, ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.3%; this one delivers 36.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bronx County) shows that 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%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH is one.

WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH. On composite proficiency, ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 32%: 690 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 28% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 today.

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