Enrollment
298
Middle
DISTRICT 378 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11·NCES 360008806249
BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
3750 BAYCHESTER AVE, BRONX, NY 10466 · (718) 547-1890 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL298 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% of New York public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
277 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 97 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 97 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 104 | 35% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
36.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 36.3% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 30.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (36.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 298 | 93.0% | 36.1% |
| BROWNSVILLE COLLABORATIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 271 | 95.2% | 62.0% |
| VILLAGE ACADEMY FAR ROCKAWAY | 305 | 93.4% | 48.4% |
| UNCOMMON BED-STUY EAST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC BROOKLYN | 317 | 85.2% | 54.9% |
| ANDREW A LANGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 314 | 93.6% | N/A |
| MS 246 WALT WHITMAN BROOKLYN | 357 | 86.8% | 31.3% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #654 of 766 | #46 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.3% | #661 of 768 ▲ 31 | #48 of 74 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #491 of 768 ▼ 87 | #33 of 74 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 298 | #563 of 796 | #34 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #510 of 683 | #41 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.0% | #228 of 688 | #8 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.0% | #103 of 773 | #54 of 75 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.0% | #508 of 524 | #58 of 59 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
298
+25 (+9%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 298 | 25.8 | 11.6:1 | 93% (277) |
| 2023-24 | 284 | 24.4 | 11.6:1 | 92% (260) |
| 2022-23 | 267 | 23.3 | 11.5:1 | 86% (230) |
| 2020-21 | 273 | 22 | 12.4:1 | 86% (235) |
| 2017-18 | 301 | 22 | 13.7:1 | 86% (260) |
| 2015-16 | 306 | 23 | 13.3:1 | 81% (249) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public low-enrollment middle-grades school in BRONX, New York. Students in grades 6 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 298 students. That compares with an average of about 531 students for middle schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 is responsible for 62 schools, BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL included, with 30,138 students in all.
The share of Black students at BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 55%, a majority. The school is also 35% Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 3% White. That is higher than the 33% Black share among all Bronx County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 11.6:1, based on 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in New York, 10.3:1, is lower. BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL counts 93% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
Among New York public middle schools, BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 22%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
A school with BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 40.8%. BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 36.1%, 4.7 points below that line.
American Community Survey estimates for Bronx County show that the median household earns about $48,676 a year, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 23%. Across Bronx County, 472 public schools serve about 202,028 students.
BRONX ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 5th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
For locale, NCES codes BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL as City: Large.
A 9% rise took enrollment from 273 in 2020-21 to 298 in 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Bronx County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,404,779
Census ACS
Median income
$48,676
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
472
202,028 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- PS 89Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS/MS 194Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS 96 RICHARD RODGERSElementary · 880 students
- PS 106 PARKCHESTERElementary · 822 students
Other schools in BRONX
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL IIICombined · 2,390 students
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- ATMOSPHERE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 1,481 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
Nearby schools
- BRONX ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 191
- ONE WORLD MIDDLE SCHOOL AT EDENWALD0.0 mi · 309
- BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING0.1 mi · 532
- PS 111 SETON FALLS0.1 mi · 397
- PS 112 BRONXWOOD0.2 mi · 370
- BAYCHESTER ACADEMY0.3 mi · 339
Frequently asked questions
About BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 298 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 35% Hispanic, 55% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11.
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