ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% 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 35 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3
Located at 1500 PELHAM PKWY S, in BRONX, New York, ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3 is an intimate elementary school that serves 350 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 443.
Operationally, ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3 answers to ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3 logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 9% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.
In terms of school funding signals, An estimated 71% 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%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3 is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 84.0%, a residual of +35.3 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate median household earnings sit near $48,676, 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 ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3 is one.
The closest other public school is ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 4, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3 at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 59.8%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting. ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3 is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3 has rose 9%, going from 320 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share rose from 3% to 9%.
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