FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of the compact 9-12 campuss in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, with 369 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 45% below the state mean of about 668.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, which oversees 83 schools and 40,459 students, FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY records that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 23% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bronx County put median household earnings sit near $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY has expanded 10%, going from 336 students in 2018 to 369 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

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