JHS 98 HERMAN RIDDER

JHS 98 HERMAN RIDDER is one of the micro-enrollment middle-grades schools in BRONX, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12, with 102 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 81% smaller than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12 runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 15,705 students. JHS 98 HERMAN RIDDER is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JHS 98 HERMAN RIDDER shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 23% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, JHS 98 HERMAN RIDDER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -9.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Bronx County reports that the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. JHS 98 HERMAN RIDDER is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

The closest other public school is BRONX ENVISION ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JHS 98 HERMAN RIDDER. On composite proficiency, JHS 98 HERMAN RIDDER comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 6-year window. Over the past 6-year window, the student count fell 57%: 237 students in 2018 compared to 102 in 2024. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 68% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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