JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY

JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY, a low-enrollment middle school in BRONX, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, serves 392 students, covering grades 6 through 10. Enrollment runs roughly 26% leaner than the state mean of about 531.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,459 students; JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY is among them.

On the student-mix side, JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY shows that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Black, 6% Asian, 3% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.8%; this one delivers 53.2%.

In the broader community, Bronx County reports that the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY is one.

IS 254 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, JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY has climbed 46%, going from 268 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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