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LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL
LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL, a sprawling multi-level school in BRONX, New York, run under LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL, enrolls 943 students, covering grades K through 12. That puts it 73% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 544 students.
LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL is the operating authority for LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
Demographically, LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder looks like 25% Black. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school employs 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.7:1, putting LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.5%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of -0.1 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bronx County put median household earnings sit near $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BRONX ACADEMY FOR MULTI-MEDIA, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.
LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL operates from a high-density location. LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 978 (now 943). Black enrollment moved from 30% to 25% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.
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