FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III

Set in BRONX, New York, FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III is a very small elementary school, run under FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III. It teaches 163 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III sits 63% below that benchmark.

FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III sits inside FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 24% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III records 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.0%; this one delivers 39.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Bronx County shows median household earnings sit near $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

Nearest neighbor: HEALTH OPPORTUNITIES HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III operates from a city-core location. FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III has declined 35%, going from 252 students in 2018 to 163 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 57% to 75% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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