Enrollment
192
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7·NCES 360008406382
LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY
639 ST ANN'S AVE, BRONX, NY 10455 · (332) 289-1334 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL192 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of New York public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
157 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 18 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 25 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 17 | 9% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 29% larger than its 6th grade class (17).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
99.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
95.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 99 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 95 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 99.0% | 95.0% |
| 2023-24 | 100.0% | 98.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
95.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+50.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 96% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% 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 51 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 →
Schools most like LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY
LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY's state test result (95.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY this school | 192 | 81.8% | 95.8% |
| MANHATTAN CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 184 | 87.0% | 41.0% |
| CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 182 | 87.4% | 23.5% |
| MUSEUM SCHOOL 25 YONKERS | 219 | 78.1% | 15.7% |
| RIVER EAST ELEMENTARY NEW YORK | 236 | 87.7% | 46.8% |
| PS 64 ROBERT SIMON NEW YORK | 147 | 84.4% | 38.1% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 95.8% | #8 of 2,335 | #2 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 95.0% | #63 of 2,342 ▼ 34 | #17 of 212 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 99.0% | #4 of 2,343 ▼ 3 | #2 of 212 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 192 | #2,406 of 2,585 | #207 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.8% | #717 of 2,534 | #198 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -45.1% | #71 of 1,757 | #22 of 153 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
192
-93 (-33%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 192 | 21 | 9.1:1 | 82% (157) |
| 2023-24 | 182 | 17.6 | 10.3:1 | 82% (150) |
| 2022-23 | 219 | 19 | 11.5:1 | 78% (171) |
| 2020-21 | 285 | 24 | 11.9:1 | 86% (245) |
| 2017-18 | 350 | 30 | 11.7:1 | 89% (312) |
| 2015-16 | 309 | 30 | 10.3:1 | 96% (296) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY.
About LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY
This page covers LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY, a small elementary school in BRONX, New York. Students in pre-K through 6 attend the school, which enrolls 192 students. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 57% smaller than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7 is the district for LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY. It has 41 schools and 13,625 students.
Hispanic students account for 65% of enrollment at LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY. Smaller groups are 30% Black and 4% White. For comparison, the population of Bronx County is roughly 55% Hispanic. LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY has a diversity index of 49%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal staffing data show 21 full-time-equivalent teachers at LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY and a ratio of 9.1:1. That ratio is under the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 82% of students. That is lower than the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
allk12 grades LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY an A+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY would score about 44.9%. It scores 95.8%, a top-10% result among New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Bronx County show that median household income is about $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 472 public schools in Bronx County, with a combined enrollment of about 202,028.
PS 643 is the nearest neighboring public school, less than a tenth of a mile away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY's average proficiency of 95.8% compares with 57.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Under the NCES locale system, LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY is City: Large.
LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY had 285 students in 2020-21 and 192 in 2024-25, a 33% decrease. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.9:1 to 9.1:1 over the same years.
Community posts for LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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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- 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 6430.0 mi · 108
- MOTT HAVEN VILLAGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 197
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SECONDARY SCHOOL-BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE0.1 mi · 596
- IS 5840.2 mi · 164
- UNIVERSITY PREP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 447
- HOSTOS-LINCOLN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE0.2 mi · 460
Frequently asked questions
About LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERYWhat is the total enrollment at LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY?
LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY enrolls approximately 192 students in grades PK-06.
Is LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY an elementary, middle, or high school?
LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY is approximately 9.1:1 (21 FTE teachers).
How diverse is LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY?
LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY reports a student body of 4% White, 65% Hispanic, 30% Black, 1% Asian.
Is LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY public or private?
LEADERS OF EXCELLENCE ADVOCACY AND DISCOVERY is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.