BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL

BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is a compact high school in BRONX, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10. The school caters to 334 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 50% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, which oversees 83 schools and 40,459 students, BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL reports that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 22% Black. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of -8.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate median household earnings sit near $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

The closest other public school is FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL has shrank 16%, going from 400 students in 2018 to 334 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

On allk12, members of the BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.