IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE

Set in BRONX, New York, IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is a small 6-8 campus, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9. It hosts 291 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE sits 45% below that benchmark.

IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is one of 70 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, a district that enrolls 23,786 students overall.

On the student-mix side, IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE lists that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 21% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bronx County (around 90%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.6%; this one delivers 36.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate median household income runs about $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

ACADEMY FOR LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE. On composite proficiency, IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 334 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 72% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

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