BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL

BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is a secondary school of small scale in BRONX, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, serveing 371 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL sits 44% below that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 comprises 70 schools with combined enrollment of 23,786 students; BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%; the rest consists of 32% Black. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bronx County (around 90%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.7%; this one delivers 32.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate median household earnings sit near $48,676, 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 LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is IS 313 SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 35% since 2018, when it stood at 574 (now 371). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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