Enrollment
351
High
DISTRICT 540 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008705183
FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
500 E FORDHAM RD, BRONX, NY 10458 · (718) 733-4656 · Bronx County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL351 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of New York public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
310 students
DISTRICT 91% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 121 | 34% |
| Grade 10 | 71 | 20% |
| Grade 11 | 76 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 83 | 24% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
82.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 46.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS's state test result (60.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS this school | 351 | 88.3% | 60.3% |
| MILLENIUM ART ACADEMY BRONX | 348 | 89.9% | 40.7% |
| STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 337 | 89.9% | 45.0% |
| RENAISSANCE HIGH SCHOOL FOR MUSICAL THEATER AND THE ARTS BRONX | 385 | 87.0% | 63.3% |
| HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY NEW YORK | 392 | 89.5% | 34.8% |
| BRONX ACADEMY FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (BASE) BRONX | 375 | 90.9% | 41.3% |
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 FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #536 of 1,135 | #20 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #447 of 1,109 ▲ 241 | #14 of 128 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #377 of 1,135 ▲ 80 | #12 of 136 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 351 | #827 of 1,216 | #89 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #364 of 1,058 | #47 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.0% | #508 of 1,070 | #53 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.3% | #268 of 1,167 | #117 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.7% | #697 of 743 | #91 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
351
-49 (-12%) vs 2020
-6% since 2010-11, when it was 373
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 351 | 34.2 | 10.3:1 | 88% (310) |
| 2023-24 | 350 | 40.5 | 8.7:1 | 87% (306) |
| 2022-23 | 394 | 34.7 | 11.3:1 | 84% (331) |
| 2020-21 | 400 | 34 | 11.8:1 | 86% (344) |
| 2017-18 | 357 | 25 | 14.3:1 | 90% (320) |
| 2015-16 | 380 | 27 | 14.1:1 | 87% (332) |
| 2010-11 | 373 | 27 | 13.8:1 | 87% (326) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS.
About FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS is a small high school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, located in BRONX, New York. In all, 351 students attend the school in grades 9 through 12. That is 47% below the average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 has 40,459 students in 83 schools, and FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS is Hispanic: 66%. The remaining shares are 27% Black and 3% Asian. Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS scores 49%.
The school lists 34.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.3:1. Statewide, high schools in New York average 11.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 88% of the student body. The figure for public schools in Bronx County is close, at 90%.
Among New York public high schools, FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS outscored 65%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS, the prediction is 42.5% and the result is 60.3%.
Looking at the county, 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 roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. Bronx County has 472 public schools with about 202,028 students, including FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS.
KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREP ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 38.5% on proficiency, and FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS is above that at 60.3%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 400 (2020-21) to 351 (2024-25). From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 11.8:1 to 10.3:1.
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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
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- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,212 students
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSElementary · 1,091 students
- IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368)High · 953 students
- PS 95 SHEILA MENCHERElementary · 851 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
- KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREP ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 461
- WEST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE0.0 mi · 575
- BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 334
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE0.0 mi · 367
- FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY0.0 mi · 369
- IS 2540.1 mi · 406
Frequently asked questions
About FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSWhat is the total enrollment at FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS?
FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS enrolls approximately 351 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS serve?
FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS have?
FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.3:1.
What is the student diversity at FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS?
Student demographics at FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS are roughly 1% White, 66% Hispanic, 27% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS?
FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 in Bronx County.
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