CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL

CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL is a 9-12 campus of small scale in BRONX, New York, overseen by CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL, teacheing 488 students in grades 6 through 11. Enrollment runs roughly 27% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 33% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.8%; this one delivers 56.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bronx County put median household earnings sit near $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CORNERSTONE ACADEMY FOR SOCIAL ACTION MIDDLE SCHOOL (CASA), around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 44.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. CAPITAL PREPARATORY BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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