JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES

JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle-grades schools in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, with 468 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 83 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 (40,459 students total), JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES logs that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Black, 14% Asian, 3% Native American, 3% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES tighter than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 51.8%, a residual of +11.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Bronx County shows median household income runs about $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES is one campus in the mix.

PROVIDING URBAN LEARNERS SUCCESS IN EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.9%.

JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 60%: 1,174 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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