CRESTON ACADEMY

CRESTON ACADEMY is one of the close-knit middle schools in BRONX, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, with 418 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so CRESTON ACADEMY sits 21% below that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,459 students; CRESTON ACADEMY is among them.

On the student-mix side, CRESTON ACADEMY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Other groups include 13% Black. 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, On paper, CRESTON ACADEMY has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at CRESTON ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CRESTON ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.5%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Bronx County shows median household income runs about $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. CRESTON ACADEMY is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

Nearest neighbor: SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CRESTON ACADEMY comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CRESTON ACADEMY has shrank 9%, going from 459 students in 2018 to 418 in 2025.

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