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Enrollment
601
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360106606303
CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
1919 PROSPECT AVE, BRONX, NY 10457 · (347) 871-9002 · Bronx County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL601 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
65 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
545 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
68.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
66.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
64.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
601
+97 (+19%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 12.6:1
% White
1%
was 2%
% Hispanic
58%
was 49%
% Black
37%
was 45%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
Located at 1919 PROSPECT AVE, in BRONX, New York, CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary-level community that teaches 601 students (grades K through 8), operated by CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 36% bigger than typical.
CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
Demographically, CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL shows that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 37% Black, 2% multiracial. Compared to Bronx County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL has 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 41.6%; CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL posts 64.2%, +22.6 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate 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%. CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).
Nearest neighbor: PS 211, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL has climbed 19%, going from 504 students in 2018 to 601 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 49% to 58%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.
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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
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- ATMOSPHERE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 1,481 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
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Nearby schools
- PS 2110.0 mi · 200
- PS 44 DAVID C FARRAGUT0.1 mi · 181
- COLIBRI COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)0.2 mi · 251
- ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX TREMONT PARK0.2 mi · 592
- SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND APPLIED LEARNING (THE)0.2 mi · 360
- KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREPARATORY ACADEMY III0.2 mi · 256
Frequently asked questions
About CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 601 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL serve?
CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.3:1 students per teacher at CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL.
How diverse is CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL reports a student body of 1% White, 58% Hispanic, 37% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL in?
CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is part of CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.