COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP

COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP is one of the one-room-style junior highs in NEW YORK, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, with 115 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 78% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Across the 45 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 (17,415 students total), COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 10% Black, 3% White. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.2%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 47.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 48%: 223 students in 2018 compared to 115 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 6.9:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.