MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL

Set in NEW YORK, New York, MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL is a tight-knit four-year high school, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. It hosts 393 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 41% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 runs 119 schools in total, collectively educating 54,599 students. MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL logs that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 39.1%; actual is 74.7%, +35.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (New York County) logs that median household earnings sit near $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 513 (now 393). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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