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Enrollment
778
Middle
DISTRICT 378 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11·NCES 360008802469
JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)
1560 PURDY ST, BRONX, NY 10462 · (718) 892-8600 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL778 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 56% 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
11.3:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
668 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 270 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 264 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 244 | 31% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
51.7%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 51.7% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 53.2% |
% 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
49.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)
JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)'s state test result (49.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) this school | 778 | 85.9% | 49.6% |
| IS 238 SUSAN B ANTHONY ACADEMY HOLLIS | 820 | 85.1% | 45.6% |
| JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL QUEENS VILLAGE | 894 | 78.2% | 53.9% |
| JHS 202 ROBERT H GODDARD OZONE PARK | 907 | 80.4% | 57.7% |
| PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY BRONX | 544 | 90.6% | 45.5% |
| MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 569 | 80.5% | 23.3% |
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 JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #439 of 766 | #11 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #478 of 768 ▼ 56 | #16 of 74 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #352 of 768 ▼ 23 | #16 of 74 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 778 | #170 of 796 | #2 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #477 of 683 | #38 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.6% | #94 of 688 | #1 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.9% | #182 of 773 | #68 of 75 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.8% | #454 of 524 | #56 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
778
-90 (-10%) vs 2020
+6% since 2010-11, when it was 731
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 778 | 68.9 | 11.3:1 | 86% (668) |
| 2023-24 | 788 | 67 | 11.8:1 | 82% (649) |
| 2022-23 | 815 | 67.8 | 12.0:1 | 80% (652) |
| 2020-21 | 868 | 70 | 12.4:1 | 81% (704) |
| 2017-18 | 809 | 51 | 15.9:1 | 78% (629) |
| 2015-16 | 741 | 49 | 15.1:1 | 65% (485) |
| 2010-11 | 731 | 45 | 16.2:1 | 92% (672) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE).
About JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)
As a medium-sized middle-grades school, JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) serves students in BRONX, New York. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 778 students. The school's enrollment is 47% larger than the 531 average for middle schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 (62 schools, 30,138 students) runs JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE).
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE). The largest is Hispanic students, at 42%. The remaining students are 32% Asian, 21% Black, and 2% White. Census figures show Bronx County is about 55% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 68% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 68.9 full-time equivalents, or about 11.3 students per teacher. On average, middle schools in New York have 10.3:1, compared with 11.3:1 here. About 86% of students, or 668, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
The allk12 Grade for JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) is B. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 56% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 43.4%. JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) scores 49.6%.
Across Bronx County, the median household income is $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. In all, Bronx County has 472 public schools and roughly 202,028 students.
The shortest distance from JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to LINDEN TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) is 4th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 10% from 2020-21, when JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) had 868 students, to 2024-25, when it had 778. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 12.4:1 to 11.3:1.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- PS 89Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS/MS 194Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS 96 RICHARD RODGERSElementary · 880 students
- PS 106 PARKCHESTERElementary · 822 students
Other schools in BRONX
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- 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
- LINDEN TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 300
- PS 106 PARKCHESTER0.1 mi · 822
- BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE0.4 mi · 790
- PS/MS 1940.4 mi · 1,169
- PS 12 LEWIS AND CLARK SCHOOL0.5 mi · 279
- PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY0.5 mi · 603
Frequently asked questions
About JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)What is the total enrollment at JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)?
JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) enrolls approximately 778 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) serve?
JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) have?
JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) employs 69 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)?
At JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE), the student body is approximately 2% White, 42% Hispanic, 21% Black, 32% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) public or private?
JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.