MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL

MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL operates as a minimally staffed four-year high school in BRONX, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7. Current enrollment sits at 248 students spanning grades 10 through 12. That puts it 63% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7 runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 13,625 students. MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL records that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 28% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 90% of students at MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.8%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

HERO HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 47.4%.

MOTT HAVEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 7%: 231 students in 2018 compared to 248 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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