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Enrollment
683
High
DISTRICT 367 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9·NCES 360008602961
BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE
244 E 163RD ST, BRONX, NY 10451 · (718) 410-3430 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL683 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.0:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
661 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 6 | 85 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 88 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 77 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 127 | 19% |
| Grade 10 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 11 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 92 | 13% |
Student demographics
37%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
54.4%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.2pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.4% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.1% | 32.9% |
% 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
38.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE
BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE's state test result (38.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE this school | 683 | 96.8% | 38.2% |
| LABORATORY SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND TECHNOLOGY (THE): X223 BRONX | 646 | 96.0% | 60.7% |
| DR RICHARD IZQUIERDO HEALTH AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 733 | 99.0% | 31.7% |
| EAST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE BRONX | 654 | 95.1% | 34.3% |
| COMPREHENSIVE MODEL SCHOOL PROJECT MS 327 BRONX | 670 | 93.4% | 47.4% |
| BRONX STUDIO SCHOOL FOR WRITERS AND ARTISTS BRONX | 589 | 93.5% | 33.4% |
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 SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.2% | #974 of 1,135 | #94 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #848 of 1,109 ▲ 6 | #66 of 128 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.4% | #884 of 1,135 ▲ 154 | #76 of 136 ▲ 37 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 683 | #365 of 1,216 | #11 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #317 of 1,058 | #39 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.3% | #713 of 1,070 | #104 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.8% | #35 of 1,167 | #23 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.0% | #400 of 743 | #65 of 96 |
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
683
-69 (-9%) vs 2020
-6% since 2010-11, when it was 725
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 683 | 68.1 | 10.0:1 | 97% (661) |
| 2023-24 | 690 | 64.9 | 10.6:1 | 94% (651) |
| 2022-23 | 747 | 61.6 | 12.1:1 | 93% (692) |
| 2020-21 | 752 | 58 | 13.0:1 | 88% (663) |
| 2017-18 | 767 | 59 | 13.0:1 | 91% (696) |
| 2015-16 | 774 | 46 | 16.8:1 | 91% (701) |
| 2010-11 | 725 | 41 | 17.7:1 | 76% (554) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE.
About BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE
BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE is a mid-sized high school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, located in BRONX, New York. The school serves grades 6 through 12. Enrollment is 683 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 runs BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE along with 69 other schools, enrolling 23,786 students in total.
At BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE, 76% of students are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 21% Black. Census figures show Bronx County is about 55% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 37%.
Its ratio of 10.0:1 is based on 68.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. High schools in New York have an average ratio of 11.0:1. In all, 97% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE lands at C-, ahead of 19% of New York public high schools.
BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (38.2%) and its predicted rate (39.4%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Bronx County show that the median household earns about $48,676 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Bronx County has 472 public schools with about 202,028 students, including BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE.
Of the public schools around it, BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE is closest to PS 35 FRANZ SIEGEL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE places 5th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
For locale, NCES codes BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE as City: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 683, down from 752 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 10.0 students per teacher, compared with 13.0 in 2020-21.
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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 # 9
- PS/IS 218 RAFAEL HERNANDEZ DUAL LANGUAGE MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 807 students
- PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELDElementary · 729 students
- COMPREHENSIVE MODEL SCHOOL PROJECT MS 327High · 670 students
- PS 53 BASHEER QUISIMElementary · 600 students
- PS 204 MORRIS HEIGHTSElementary · 576 students
- PS 28 MOUNT HOPEElementary · 556 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 35 FRANZ SIEGEL0.1 mi · 358
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL0.1 mi · 336
- GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 353
- BRONX EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING0.1 mi · 370
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 30.3 mi · 1,358
- NEW MILLENNIUM BRONX ACADEMY OF THE ARTS0.3 mi · 126
Frequently asked questions
About BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICEHow large is BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE?
BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE enrolls approximately 683 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE serve?
BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE serves grades 06-12.
How many students per teacher at BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE?
Approximately 10.0:1 students per teacher at BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE?
At BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE, the student body is approximately 1% White, 76% Hispanic, 21% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE public or private?
BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.