BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE, a close-knit 9-12 campus in BRONX, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, enrolls 367 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 45% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, which oversees 83 schools and 40,459 students, BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 18% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.0%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bronx County put the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE is one.

BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 40.4%.

BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 414 (now 367). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 28% to 18%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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