BRONX CAREER AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 800 HOME ST, in BRONX, New York, BRONX CAREER AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is a minimally staffed 9-12 campus that enrolls 124 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12. That puts it 81% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

BRONX CAREER AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 47 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12, a district that instructs 15,705 students overall.

On the student-mix side, BRONX CAREER AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL lists that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 38% Black, 4% Asian. Compared to Bronx County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.9:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, BRONX CAREER AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bronx County put median household earnings sit near $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), BRONX CAREER AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BRONX LATIN SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRONX CAREER AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRONX CAREER AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 48%: 238 students in 2018 compared to 124 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 4.9:1 today.

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