IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS
Located at 1919 PROSPECT AVE, in BRONX, New York, IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS is a low-enrollment middle school that enrolls 278 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS sits 48% below that benchmark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12 comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 15,705 students; IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS is among them.
In terms of who attends, IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS shows that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 27% Black. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.4:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.0%, the actual is 26.3%, a residual of -12.7 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS is one.
EAST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS has ticked up 8%, going from 257 students in 2018 to 278 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 in 2025.
On the community side, the feed for IS 318 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ARTS typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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