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Enrollment
528
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2·NCES 360114206578
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2
1804 HOLLAND AVE, BRONX, NY 10462 · (718) 892-1276 · Bronx County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL528 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of New York public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.0:1
22 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
464 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 43 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 53% larger than its 8th grade class (43).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
93.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
96.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.0% | 96.2% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 94.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
89.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+47.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 47 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2's state test result (89.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 this school | 528 | 87.9% | 89.7% |
| PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP JAMAICA | 661 | 86.5% | 57.0% |
| WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 498 | 91.0% | 47.3% |
| PS 112 DUTCH KILLS LONG ISLAND CITY | 521 | 89.3% | 35.2% |
| HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 440 | 85.0% | 13.5% |
| PS 97 BRONX | 578 | 84.4% | 46.4% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.7% | #45 of 2,335 | #12 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 96.2% | #49 of 2,342 ▲ 17 | #13 of 212 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #48 of 2,343 ▲ 50 | #13 of 212 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 528 | #699 of 2,585 | #66 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.0:1 | #2,322 of 2,338 | #187 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #350 of 2,388 | #4 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.9% | #503 of 2,534 | #168 of 220 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
528
+179 (+51%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
24.0:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 528 | 22 | 24.0:1 | 88% (464) |
| 2023-24 | 458 | 22 | 20.8:1 | 85% (388) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 19 | 24.3:1 | 88% (404) |
| 2020-21 | 349 | 21 | 16.6:1 | 79% (276) |
| 2017-18 | 174 | 8 | 21.8:1 | 84% (146) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2.
About BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 is a medium-sized elementary school based in BRONX, New York. Enrolled students number 528 students, in kindergarten through 8.
The school serves as its own district in federal records.
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 43%. Smaller groups are 31% Black, 22% Asian, and 3% White. County-wide, 55% of Bronx County residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 67%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 24.0:1, with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. Lunch subsidy eligibility at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 is 88%. Across public schools in Bronx County, the average is about the same, 90%.
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 98% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 are 47.0 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 89.7%, compared with a predicted 42.7%, which ranks in the top 10% in New York.
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 is located in Bronx County, where median household income is about $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 472 public schools in Bronx County, with a combined enrollment of about 202,028.
The school nearest to BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 is STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE), at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Within five miles of BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 56.9%; BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2's is 89.7%, ranking 1st of 9.
NCES assigns BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 349 to 528. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served. The ratio was 16.6:1 in 2020-21 and 24.0:1 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 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
- STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE)0.2 mi · 271
- PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY0.3 mi · 603
- ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 20.3 mi · 342
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZ0.4 mi · 1,451
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS0.4 mi · 392
- PS 105 SENATOR ABRAHAM BERNSTEIN0.5 mi · 659
Frequently asked questions
About BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2What is the total enrollment at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2?
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 enrolls approximately 528 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 serve?
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2?
Approximately 24.0:1 students per teacher at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2.
How diverse is BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2?
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 reports a student body of 3% White, 43% Hispanic, 31% Black, 22% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 in?
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2 is part of BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2.
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