BAYCHESTER ACADEMY

BAYCHESTER ACADEMY, a low-enrollment elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, hosts 339 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so BAYCHESTER ACADEMY sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, which oversees 62 schools and 30,138 students, BAYCHESTER ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, BAYCHESTER ACADEMY logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 30% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 33% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting BAYCHESTER ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, BAYCHESTER ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.5%; this one delivers 54.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bronx County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), BAYCHESTER ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

PS 111 SETON FALLS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BAYCHESTER ACADEMY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BAYCHESTER ACADEMY has edged down 15%, going from 399 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 20% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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