HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL

HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL operates as an expansive senior high in BRONX, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8. Current enrollment sits at 1,087 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL sits 63% above that benchmark.

Across the 52 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8 (21,621 students total), HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment; the rest looks like 25% Black, 8% White, 7% Asian. Compared to Bronx County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL shows 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Bronx County's rate of about 90%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 48.7%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bronx County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SCHUYLERVILLE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 50%: 725 students in 2018 compared to 1,087 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 49% to 57%.

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