BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL

BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the close-knit elementary schools in STATEN ISLAND, New York, operated by BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 263 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL sits 41% below that benchmark.

BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 25% Black, 24% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.3%; actual is 24.6%, a gap of -23.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Richmond County indicate the typical household earns roughly $98,333 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Richmond County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students), BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.9%.

BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL operates from an urban location. BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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