Enrollment
331
High
DISTRICT 540 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008705181
HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS
2780 RESEVOIR AVE, BRONX, NY 10468 · (718) 329-7380 · Bronx County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL331 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of New York public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
7.0:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
315 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 | 68 | 21% |
| Grade 10 | 84 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 102 | 31% |
| Grade 12 | 77 | 23% |
Student demographics
33%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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -9.0pp since 2023
Math
28.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 30.0% |
% 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
39.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS
HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS's state test result (39.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS this school | 331 | 95.2% | 39.8% |
| BRONX EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING BRONX | 370 | 94.3% | 41.4% |
| BUSHWICK LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE BROOKLYN | 358 | 91.6% | 23.2% |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 345 | 99.1% | 55.0% |
| PROGRESS HIGH SCHOOL FOR PROFESSIONAL CAREERS BROOKLYN | 418 | 95.5% | 30.3% |
| DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 377 | 91.5% | 55.0% |
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 HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #946 of 1,135 | #87 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #901 of 1,109 ▼ 28 | #75 of 128 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,059 of 1,135 ▼ 77 | #122 of 136 ▼ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 331 | #873 of 1,216 | #97 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.0:1 | #21 of 1,058 | #7 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.5% | #767 of 1,070 | #116 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.2% | #74 of 1,167 | #48 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.9% | #150 of 743 | #36 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
331
-72 (-18%) vs 2020
-29% since 2010-11, when it was 468
Student : Teacher
7.0:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 331 | 47.3 | 7.0:1 | 95% (315) |
| 2023-24 | 358 | 38.3 | 9.4:1 | 92% (330) |
| 2022-23 | 380 | 37.7 | 10.1:1 | 89% (337) |
| 2020-21 | 403 | 33 | 12.2:1 | 91% (365) |
| 2017-18 | 424 | 30 | 14.1:1 | 90% (383) |
| 2015-16 | 465 | 32 | 14.5:1 | 85% (397) |
| 2010-11 | 468 | 29 | 16.1:1 | 99% (465) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS.
About HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS
Families in BRONX, New York, are served by HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS, a small high school. There are 331 students enrolled, covering grades 9 through 12. High schools in New York average about 668 students, which makes this school 50% below average.
Federal data list 83 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, with 40,459 students enrolled.
By race and ethnicity, HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS is 81% Hispanic. Next come 15% Black. The county population is about 55% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 33, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 7.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS, which has 47.3. The school's 7.0:1 compares with an average of 11.0:1 for high schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 95%.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 22% of New York public high schools.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 39.8% is within a point of the 40.0% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Bronx County, home to about 1,404,779 people, the median household earns about $48,676 a year, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 23%. HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS shares Bronx County with 471 other public schools.
DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS places 5th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
An 18% decrease took enrollment from 403 in 2020-21 to 331 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 12.2:1 to 7.0:1.
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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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- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- ATMOSPHERE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 1,481 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
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Nearby schools
- DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 377
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS0.0 mi · 491
- CELIA CRUZ BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC (THE)0.0 mi · 407
- KINGSBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 199
- PS 3400.1 mi · 552
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS0.1 mi · 1,091
Frequently asked questions
About HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONSWhat is the total enrollment at HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS?
HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS enrolls approximately 331 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS serve?
HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS is approximately 7.0:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS?
At HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS, the student body is approximately 1% White, 81% Hispanic, 15% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS public or private?
HIGH SCHOOL FOR TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10.
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