EMOLIOR ACADEMY

Set in BRONX, New York, EMOLIOR ACADEMY is a cozy 6-8 campus, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12. It serves 388 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so EMOLIOR ACADEMY sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12, which oversees 47 schools and 15,705 students, EMOLIOR ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, EMOLIOR ACADEMY logs that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 20% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting EMOLIOR ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EMOLIOR ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.5%; this one delivers 46.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Bronx County shows median household income runs about $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which EMOLIOR ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is PS 214, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EMOLIOR ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, EMOLIOR ACADEMY comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. EMOLIOR ACADEMY's enrollment has edged up 52% since 2018, when it stood at 255 (now 388). Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 74% across the same window.

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