Enrollment
291
Middle
DISTRICT 216 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9·NCES 360008603764
IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE
1700 MACOMBS RD, BRONX, NY 10453 · (718) 583-5466 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% of New York public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
288 students
DISTRICT 96% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 76 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 97 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 118 | 41% |
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
43.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
40.2%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 40.2% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 45.1% |
% 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
36.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE
IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE's state test result (36.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE this school | 291 | 99.0% | 36.4% |
| IS 117 JOSEPH H WADE BRONX | 320 | 98.4% | 24.7% |
| MS 390 BRONX | 311 | 97.7% | 42.3% |
| ANGELO PATRI MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) BRONX | 333 | 97.6% | 36.0% |
| MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ BRONX | 319 | 97.2% | 40.9% |
| IS 232 BRONX | 248 | 99.2% | 40.5% |
Matched among New York middle 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 IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.4% | #651 of 766 | #45 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #631 of 768 ▼ 83 | #40 of 74 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #448 of 768 ▲ 230 | #28 of 74 ▲ 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #573 of 796 | #35 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #167 of 683 | #17 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.3% | #510 of 688 | #41 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.0% | #9 of 773 | #7 of 75 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #255 of 524 | #49 of 59 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
291
-36 (-11%) vs 2020
-14% since 2010-11, when it was 340
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 291 | 31.3 | 9.3:1 | 99% (288) |
| 2023-24 | 308 | 30 | 10.3:1 | 98% (301) |
| 2022-23 | 332 | 29.1 | 11.4:1 | 97% (323) |
| 2020-21 | 327 | 33 | 9.9:1 | 95% (310) |
| 2017-18 | 334 | 31 | 10.8:1 | 99% (332) |
| 2015-16 | 325 | 27 | 12.0:1 | 98% (317) |
| 2010-11 | 340 | 23 | 14.8:1 | 99% (337) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE.
About IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE
IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is a low-enrollment middle school. Its address is in BRONX, New York. Students in grades 6 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 291 students. By comparison, middle schools in New York enroll about 531 students on average.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, which runs IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE, has 70 schools and 23,786 students.
Federal enrollment data show IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is 78% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 21% Black. The school's Hispanic share is 23 points above the 55% share among Bronx County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 35%.
There are 31.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE, giving a ratio of 9.3:1. The school's 9.3:1 compares with an average of 10.3:1 for middle schools in New York. By family income, 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 9 points above the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE 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 26% of New York public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is -2.2 points: 36.4% actual, 38.6% predicted.
Census data for Bronx County show the median household earns about $48,676 a year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Bronx County number 472, with about 202,028 students.
Of the public schools around it, IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is closest to ACADEMY FOR LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY, less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is 7th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 11% across 4 years, from 327 in 2020-21 to 291 in 2024-25.
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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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- 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
- ACADEMY FOR LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY0.0 mi · 356
- IS 2320.0 mi · 248
- PS 204 MORRIS HEIGHTS0.0 mi · 576
- PS 109 SEDGWICK0.2 mi · 430
- PS 3060.3 mi · 379
- BRONX SCHOOL OF YOUNG LEADERS (THE)0.3 mi · 342
Frequently asked questions
About IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICEHow large is IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE?
IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE enrolls approximately 291 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE serve?
IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE?
The student-to-teacher ratio at IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is approximately 9.3:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE?
Student demographics at IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE are roughly 78% Hispanic, 21% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE?
IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 in Bronx County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.