BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a modestly sized middle-grades school in BRONX, New York, BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL instructs 298 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 62 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 (30,138 students total), BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 55% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 35% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 3% White. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 33% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.8%; this one delivers 36.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bronx County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

ONE WORLD MIDDLE SCHOOL AT EDENWALD is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL has showed little movement, going from 301 students in 2018 to 298 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 68% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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