Enrollment
248
High
DISTRICT 367 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7·NCES 360008406352
MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
455 SOUTHERN BLVD, BRONX, NY 10455 · (718) 665-8512 · Bronx County
GRADES 10–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL248 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
224 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 10 | 118 | 48% |
| Grade 11 | 57 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 73 | 29% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 37.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (49.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 248 | 90.3% | 49.0% |
| ARTURO A SCHOMBURG SATELLITE ACADEMY BRONX BRONX | 259 | 93.8% | 55.5% |
| SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 290 | 90.7% | 39.9% |
| BRONX THEATRE HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 217 | 92.6% | 33.2% |
| MARIE CURIE HIGH SCHOOL-NURSING BRONX | 263 | 94.3% | 37.2% |
| HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 223 | 94.2% | 44.3% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #750 of 1,135 | #47 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #717 of 1,109 ▲ 70 | #44 of 128 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #921 of 1,135 ▼ 82 | #83 of 136 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 248 | #1,013 of 1,216 | #121 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #413 of 1,058 | #54 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.9% | #546 of 1,070 | #64 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.3% | #209 of 1,167 | #100 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.4% | #180 of 339 | #21 of 32 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
248
+25 (+11%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 10.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 248 | 23.7 | 10.5:1 | 90% (224) |
| 2023-24 | 226 | 27.4 | 8.3:1 | 91% (206) |
| 2022-23 | 239 | 24.9 | 9.6:1 | 92% (220) |
| 2020-21 | 223 | 21 | 10.6:1 | 86% (191) |
| 2017-18 | 231 | 15 | 15.4:1 | 83% (192) |
| 2015-16 | 217 | 18 | 12.1:1 | 61% (132) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL.
About MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
At 455 SOUTHERN BLVD in BRONX, New York, MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL operates as a very small high school. There are 248 students enrolled, covering grades 10 through 12. Across high schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 668.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7 enrolls 13,625 students in 41 schools, including MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL.
The student body at MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is 67% Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 28% Black and 2% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 55%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 48%.
Classroom staffing at MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL totals 23.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.5:1. The ratio is within a point of the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is about 90%. Public schools in Bronx County average a similar 90%.
Among New York public high schools, MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL outscored 43%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is 7.2 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
The school is in Bronx County, where the median household earns about $48,676 a year, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 23%. MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL shares Bronx County with 471 other public schools.
HERO HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 11% rise, from 223 to 248.
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Bronx County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,404,779
Census ACS
Median income
$48,676
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
472
202,028 students
Quick facts
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- HERO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 733 students
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- PS/MS 29 MELROSE SCHOOLElementary · 606 students
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- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL IIICombined · 2,390 students
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- ATMOSPHERE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 1,481 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
Nearby schools
- HERO HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 733
- URBAN ASSEMBLY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE0.1 mi · 488
- UNIVERSITY PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 424
- JM RAPPORT SCHOOL FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT0.1 mi · 408
- NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX0.1 mi · 472
- AMERICAN DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 603
Frequently asked questions
About MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL?
MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 248 students in grades 10-12.
What grades does MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 10-12.
How many students per teacher at MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.5:1 students per teacher at MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL?
At MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 67% Hispanic, 28% Black, 2% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL in?
MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7.
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