MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES

Located at 1110 BOSTON RD, in BRONX, New York, MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is a compact four-year high school that caters to 445 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 33% leaner than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 runs 70 schools in total, collectively educating 23,786 students. MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is one of those campuses.

On demographics, MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 26% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding 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 the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is one.

Nearest neighbor: HIGH SCHOOL FOR VIOLIN AND DANCE, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 11%: 401 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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