BRONX THEATRE HIGH SCHOOL

BRONX THEATRE HIGH SCHOOL is one of the very small four-year high schools in BRONX, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, with 217 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 68% below typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 40,459 students. BRONX THEATRE HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BRONX THEATRE HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 27% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BRONX THEATRE HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Bronx County shows 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%. BRONX THEATRE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

Nearest neighbor: UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED MATH AND SCIENCE, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BRONX THEATRE HIGH SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. BRONX THEATRE HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 44% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 217). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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