BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE)

BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) is an one-room-style middle school in BRONX, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8. The school serves 190 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) sits 64% leaner than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, which oversees 52 schools and 21,621 students, BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 24% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bronx County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) is one.

WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.0%.

BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) has declined 18%, going from 233 students in 2018 to 190 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 28% to 24% across the same window.

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