Enrollment
334
High
DISTRICT 540 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008705182
BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL
500 E FORDHAM RD, BRONX, NY 10458 · (718) 733-4559 · Bronx County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 7% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
313 students
DISTRICT 91% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 114 | 34% |
| Grade 10 | 98 | 29% |
| Grade 11 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 12 | 68 | 20% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -17.0pp since 2023
Math
12.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 12.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 13.0% |
% 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
31.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% 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 →
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BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (31.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 334 | 93.7% | 31.7% |
| BRONX SCHOOL OF LAW AND FINANCE BRONX | 330 | 93.0% | 37.5% |
| FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY BRONX | 369 | 93.8% | 43.3% |
| BRONX EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING BRONX | 370 | 94.3% | 41.4% |
| UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE HUMANITIES BRONX | 325 | 91.4% | 34.5% |
| GLOBAL LEARNING COLLABORATIVE (THE) NEW YORK | 393 | 92.1% | 38.7% |
Matched among New York high 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 BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #1,066 of 1,135 | #123 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.0% | #1,082 of 1,109 ▼ 17 | #121 of 128 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #923 of 1,135 ▼ 267 | #85 of 136 ▼ 43 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #864 of 1,216 | #95 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #668 of 1,058 | #88 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.2% | #659 of 1,070 | #98 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.7% | #114 of 1,167 | #66 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.5% | #243 of 743 | #49 of 96 |
Ranked against other public high 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
334
-64 (-16%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 391
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 334 | 28.3 | 11.8:1 | 94% (313) |
| 2023-24 | 365 | 26.5 | 13.8:1 | 92% (334) |
| 2022-23 | 371 | 27.9 | 13.3:1 | 88% (327) |
| 2020-21 | 398 | 29 | 13.7:1 | 87% (346) |
| 2017-18 | 400 | 29 | 13.8:1 | 88% (352) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 27 | 15.7:1 | 88% (372) |
| 2010-11 | 391 | 28 | 14.0:1 | 84% (327) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL.
About BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL
Families in BRONX, New York, are served by BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, a low-enrollment high school. Its 334 students are spread across grades 9 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in New York is about 668 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 is made up of 83 schools with 40,459 students in all.
BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment is 73% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 22% Black. In Bronx County overall, about 55% of residents are Hispanic. BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL has a diversity index of 41%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 28.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 11.8:1. Among high schools in New York, the typical ratio is 11.0:1. The lunch program counts 94% of students at BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is graded D by allk12, scoring above 7% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 40.5% at BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 31.7%.
Bronx County has these Census figures: median household income is about $48,676, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is among the 472 public schools in Bronx County.
The next-closest public school is WEST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE, less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 7th on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
The 2024-25 enrollment of 334 was 16% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 398. Students per teacher fell from 13.7 in 2020-21 to 11.8 in 2024-25.
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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 #10
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,212 students
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSElementary · 1,091 students
- IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368)High · 953 students
- PS 95 SHEILA MENCHERElementary · 851 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
- WEST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE0.0 mi · 575
- KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREP ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 461
- FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS0.0 mi · 351
- FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY0.0 mi · 369
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE0.0 mi · 367
- IS 2540.1 mi · 406
Frequently asked questions
About BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL?
BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 334 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 11.8:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL?
At BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 73% Hispanic, 22% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.