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Enrollment
790
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE·NCES 360011305688
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE
1960 BENEDICT AVE, BRONX, NY 10462 · (718) 828-7301 · Bronx County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL790 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% 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
23.2:1
34 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
720 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 | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 88 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 82 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (82).
Student demographics
59%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
92.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
94.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.0% | 94.1% |
| 2023-24 | 88.0% | 93.3% |
% 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
89.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+48.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% 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 48 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
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE's state test result (89.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE this school | 790 | 91.1% | 89.8% |
| PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN BROOKLYN | 661 | 92.6% | 45.2% |
| PS 214 MICHAEL FRIEDSAM BROOKLYN | 728 | 88.9% | 42.5% |
| PS 106 PARKCHESTER BRONX | 822 | 87.6% | 45.2% |
| PS 86 JAMAICA | 689 | 85.5% | 57.5% |
| PS 217 COLONEL DAVID MARCUS SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 901 | 85.7% | 50.7% |
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 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.8% | #44 of 2,335 | #11 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.1% | #73 of 2,342 ▲ 7 | #19 of 212 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.0% | #58 of 2,343 ▼ 25 | #15 of 212 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 790 | #159 of 2,585 | #15 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.2:1 | #2,319 of 2,338 | #186 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.4% | #732 of 2,388 | #25 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.1% | #363 of 2,534 | #143 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.5% | #1,682 of 1,757 | #151 of 153 |
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
790
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
+107% since 2010-11, when it was 382
Student : Teacher
23.2:1
was 18.5:1
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 | 790 | 34 | 23.2:1 | 91% (720) |
| 2023-24 | 755 | 36 | 21.0:1 | 83% (627) |
| 2022-23 | 792 | 38 | 20.8:1 | 81% (639) |
| 2020-21 | 795 | 43 | 18.5:1 | 77% (613) |
| 2017-18 | 802 | 38 | 21.1:1 | 79% (635) |
| 2015-16 | 766 | 47 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 382 | 24 | 15.9:1 | 67% (256) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE.
About BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE is a large elementary school found in BRONX, New York. Students in kindergarten through 8 attend, and enrollment is 790 students. The school's enrollment is 78% above the 443 average for elementary schools in New York.
The school serves as its own district in federal records.
Asian students account for 56% of enrollment at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE. Other students are 24% Hispanic and 18% Black. That is higher than the 4% Asian share among all Bronx County residents. By the diversity index, BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE comes in at 59%.
Teacher staffing is 34 full-time equivalents, or about 23.2 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. About 91% of students, or 720, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is close to the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
allk12 grades BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE an A+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 89.8%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New York are predicted to post 41.5%, so the school is 48.3 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
County data help place the school in context: in Bronx County, median household income is about $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 23%. BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE is among the 472 public schools in Bronx County.
PS 106 PARKCHESTER is located about 0.3 miles from BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE is ahead of the 42.5% nearby average, ranking 1st of 9.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics. As a charter school, BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE is publicly funded and operates under a charter.
In 2020-21, BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE enrolled 795; in 2024-25, 790. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 23.2:1, from 18.5:1.
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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
- PS 106 PARKCHESTER0.3 mi · 822
- PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.3 mi · 544
- DR EMMETT W BASSETT SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 508
- LINDEN TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 300
- JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)0.4 mi · 778
- PS 47 JOHN RANDOLPH0.4 mi · 789
Frequently asked questions
About BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCEHow many students attend BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE?
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE enrolls approximately 790 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE serve?
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE is approximately 23.2:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE?
Student demographics at BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE are roughly 1% White, 24% Hispanic, 18% Black, 56% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE in?
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE is part of BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE.
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