BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL

BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in BRONX, New York, run under BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL, serveing 417 students in grades K through 4.

BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL is the operating authority for BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL shows that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL shows 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 59.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.4%, the actual is 56.4%, a residual of +14.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Bronx County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is BRILLA PAX CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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