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What's the biggest difference between BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY and what you expected?
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Enrollment
429
High
DISTRICT 367 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9·NCES 360008605669
BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY
240 E 172ND ST, BRONX, NY 10457 · (718) 410-4077 · Bronx County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL429 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
388 students
DISTRICT 96% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 110 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 110 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 111 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 98 | 23% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +25.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 25 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 25.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 COLLEGIATE ACADEMY
BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY's state test result (45.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY this school | 429 | 90.4% | 45.0% |
| LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY FOR NEWCOMERS NEW YORK | 460 | 90.2% | 55.7% |
| HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY NEW YORK | 392 | 89.5% | 34.8% |
| ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 412 | 92.7% | 37.5% |
| EXIMIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL BRONX | 365 | 90.7% | 42.8% |
| FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 414 | 90.8% | 63.0% |
Matched among New York high 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 COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #828 of 1,135 | #58 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #592 of 1,109 ▲ 346 | #30 of 128 ▲ 56 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,009 of 1,135 ▼ 18 | #108 of 136 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 429 | #647 of 1,216 | #45 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #853 of 1,058 | #106 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.4% | #501 of 1,070 | #52 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.4% | #206 of 1,167 | #99 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.9% | #164 of 339 | #17 of 32 |
Ranked against other public high 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
429
+46 (+12%) vs 2020
+19% since 2010-11, when it was 361
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 429 | 32.4 | 13.2:1 | 90% (388) |
| 2023-24 | 428 | 38.8 | 11.0:1 | 90% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 401 | 29.3 | 13.7:1 | 89% (358) |
| 2020-21 | 383 | 34 | 11.3:1 | 90% (343) |
| 2017-18 | 394 | 29 | 13.6:1 | 86% (337) |
| 2015-16 | 389 | 24 | 16.2:1 | 75% (290) |
| 2010-11 | 361 | 33 | 10.9:1 | 83% (300) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY.
About BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY
BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is a high school in BRONX, New York, according to federal school records. It offers grades 9 through 12 and has 429 students enrolled. That is 36% below the average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 enrolls 23,786 students, and its 70 schools include BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY.
Hispanic students are 65% of those enrolled at BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY. Next come 29% Black and 2% White. That compares with about 55% Hispanic among all Bronx County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.
Its staff includes 32.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.2 students per teacher. Across high schools in New York, the average ratio is 11.0:1. BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 90%. That is in line with the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
Among New York public high schools, BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY outscored 32%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is 3.3 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (45.0% versus 41.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
For Bronx County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $48,676 a year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Counting BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY, Bronx County has 472 public schools.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY from the closest public school, CLAREMONT INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is 2nd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The NCES locale for BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment increased 12% over 4 years, reaching 429 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 11.3:1 to 13.2:1.
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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
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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
- CLAREMONT INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 383
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS0.0 mi · 299
- NEW DIRECTIONS SECONDARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 123
- DREAMYARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 294
- PS 469-BRONX SCHOOL FOR CONTINUOUS LEARNING (THE)0.0 mi · 625
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR MEDICAL SCIENCE0.0 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMYHow large is BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY?
BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY enrolls approximately 429 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY serve?
BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY.
How diverse is BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY?
BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY reports a student body of 2% White, 65% Hispanic, 29% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY in?
BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.