DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% 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 22 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
About DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE is a low-enrollment elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, run under DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE. The school works with 363 students in grades K through 6.
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE is the operating authority for DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
Looking at the student body, DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 35% Black.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 40.2%; actual is 62.5%, +22.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, Bronx County reports that median household income runs about $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is PS 114 LUIS LLORENS TORRES SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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