Enrollment
267
Middle
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008705569
BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL
3617 BAINBRIDGE AVE, BRONX, NY 10467 · (718) 515-0410 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL267 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 67% of New York public middle schools
- B-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
249 students
DISTRICT 91% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 92 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 84 | 31% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
66.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 62.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
52.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL
BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL's state test result (52.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL this school | 267 | 93.3% | 52.6% |
| SOUTH BRONX EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 266 | 97.0% | 35.8% |
| JHS 291 ROLAND HAYES BROOKLYN | 294 | 88.4% | 23.1% |
| JHS 162 WILLOUGHBY (THE) BROOKLYN | 281 | 95.4% | 32.3% |
| IS 206 ANN MERSEREAU BRONX | 229 | 97.8% | 33.8% |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 218 | 94.0% | 44.0% |
Matched among New York middle 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 DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.6% | #377 of 766 | #6 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #485 of 768 ▲ 100 | #19 of 74 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #138 of 768 ▼ 7 | #1 of 74 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 267 | #619 of 796 | #41 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #626 of 683 | #49 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.3% | #547 of 688 | #50 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.3% | #98 of 773 | #51 of 75 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #515 of 524 | #59 of 59 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
267
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-7% since 2010-11, when it was 286
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 267 | 20 | 13.3:1 | 93% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 272 | 18 | 15.1:1 | 90% (246) |
| 2022-23 | 257 | 20 | 12.8:1 | 93% (238) |
| 2020-21 | 264 | 22 | 12.0:1 | 89% (236) |
| 2017-18 | 269 | 19 | 14.2:1 | 93% (249) |
| 2015-16 | 276 | 19 | 14.5:1 | 87% (239) |
| 2010-11 | 286 | 15 | 19.1:1 | 82% (235) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL.
About BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL
BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL is a small middle school located in BRONX, New York. There are 267 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 531.
Federal data list 83 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, with 40,459 students enrolled.
A large majority of enrollment at BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL is Hispanic, at 83%. After that, the student body is 12% Black. Among all residents of Bronx County, the Hispanic share is about 55%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 29%.
There are 20 full-time-equivalent teachers at BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 13.3:1. Middle schools in New York have an average ratio of 10.3:1. By family income, 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
Among New York public middle schools, BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL outscored 67%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL is 11.9 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 52.6% actual, 40.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
In Bronx County, where the school is located, 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 DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL, Bronx County has 472 public schools.
PS 94 KINGS COLLEGE SCHOOL sits about 0.4 miles from BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL is 4th among 9 schools close by.
NCES describes the area around BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 264 to 267, a small change. The ratio was 12.0:1 in 2020-21 and 13.3:1 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 NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,212 students
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSElementary · 1,091 students
- IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368)High · 953 students
- PS 95 SHEILA MENCHERElementary · 851 students
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 94 KINGS COLLEGE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 748
- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,212
- BRONX COLLABORATIVE HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 423
- WORLD VIEW HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 635
- PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY0.6 mi · 667
- JHS 80 MOSHOLU PARKWAY (THE)0.6 mi · 562
Frequently asked questions
About BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOLHow large is BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL?
BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 267 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL serve?
BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL have?
BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL?
At BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 83% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL public or private?
BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.