ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The New York average is about 58 of 100. Reading and writing scores are down about 23 points since 2023.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX
As a tiny high school in BRONX, New York, ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX teaches 259 students from grades 9 through 12, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12 comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 15,705 students; ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX is among them.
Looking at the student body, ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 29.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX higher than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of +15.0 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bronx County) reports that median household earnings sit near $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).
Nearest neighbor: BRONX REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 48.5%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Over the past 7-year window. ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX's enrollment has grew 44% since 2018, when it stood at 180 (now 259). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 39% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 29.0:1 today.
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