MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR

MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR is an intermediate school of very small scale in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, hosting 148 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 72% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8 runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 21,621 students. MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment; the rest looks like 32% Black, 3% White, 2% Native American.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.0:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.7%; this one comes in at 18.5%, -21.2 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bronx County) logs that 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%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 140 EAGLE SCHOOL (THE), around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR's enrollment has shrank 39% since 2018, when it stood at 244 (now 148). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 40% to 32%. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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