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Enrollment
414
High
DISTRICT 325 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12·NCES 360009001327
FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL
1021 JENNINGS ST, BRONX, NY 10460 · (718) 861-0521 · Bronx County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL414 STUDENTS
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Not graded
This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
376 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 92 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 103 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 104 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 115 | 28% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
57.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The New York average is about 58 of 100. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2023.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts |
|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% |
% 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
63.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% 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 21 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 FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL
FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (63.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL this school | 414 | 90.8% | 63.0% |
| HOSTOS-LINCOLN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE BRONX | 460 | 90.2% | 43.8% |
| ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 412 | 92.7% | 37.5% |
| GLOBAL LEARNING COLLABORATIVE (THE) NEW YORK | 393 | 92.1% | 38.7% |
| FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY BRONX | 369 | 93.8% | 43.3% |
| BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY BRONX | 429 | 90.4% | 45.0% |
Matched among New York high 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 FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #487 of 1,135 | #14 of 136 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #829 of 1,135 ▼ 172 | #65 of 136 ▼ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 414 | #676 of 1,216 | #53 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #1,048 of 1,058 | #119 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.1% | #613 of 1,070 | #84 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.8% | #192 of 1,167 | #93 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.6% | #441 of 743 | #72 of 96 |
Ranked against other public high 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
414
-65 (-14%) vs 2020
-18% since 2010-11, when it was 507
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 47.9:1
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 | 414 | 21.8 | 19.0:1 | 91% (376) |
| 2023-24 | 443 | 21.8 | 20.4:1 | 91% (404) |
| 2022-23 | 448 | 10 | 44.8:1 | 89% (400) |
| 2020-21 | 479 | 10 | 47.9:1 | 89% (426) |
| 2017-18 | 458 | 32 | 14.3:1 | 84% (385) |
| 2015-16 | 493 | 29 | 17.0:1 | 73% (359) |
| 2010-11 | 507 | 33 | 15.4:1 | 91% (461) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL.
About FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL
FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL is a small high school in BRONX, New York. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 414 students. It has 38% fewer students than the average for high schools in New York (about 668).
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12 counts 47 schools and 15,705 students, including FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL.
At FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL, 71% of students are Hispanic. It is also 25% Black and 2% White. For comparison, the population of Bronx County is roughly 55% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL scores 44%.
FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL has 21.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 19.0:1. High schools in New York average 11.0:1, 8.0 fewer students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 91% at FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL. The average for public schools in Bronx County is similar, at 90%.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 41.6%. FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL posts 63.0%, 21.4 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
In Bronx County, the median household earns about $48,676 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Bronx County has 472 public schools with about 202,028 students, including FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL.
FANNIE LOU HAMER MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL is 3rd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL had a net loss of 65 students, or 14%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 47.9 to 19.0 over 4 years.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12
- PS 214Elementary · 814 students
- PS 47 JOHN RANDOLPHElementary · 789 students
- PS 195Elementary · 713 students
- PS 196Elementary · 662 students
- EAST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTUREHigh · 654 students
- MOTT HALL VHigh · 636 students
Other schools in BRONX
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL IIICombined · 2,390 students
- 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
- FANNIE LOU HAMER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 228
- PS 66 SCHOOL OF HIGHER EXPECTATIONS0.1 mi · 455
- PS 8110.1 mi · 636
- SAMARA COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 327
- FAIRMONT NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL0.2 mi · 266
- PAN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT MONROE0.4 mi · 339
Frequently asked questions
About FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL?
FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 414 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL serve?
FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL have?
FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL?
At FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 71% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL?
FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12 in Bronx County.
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