Enrollment
148
Middle
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8·NCES 360008505121
MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR
890 CAULDWELL AVE, BRONX, NY 10456 · (718) 585-2950 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL148 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of New York public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.0:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
142 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 45 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 45 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 58 | 39% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
18.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -8.0pp since 2023
Math
17.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.0% | 17.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 17.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR
MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR's state test result (18.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR this school | 148 | 95.9% | 18.5% |
| SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS BRONX | 137 | 97.1% | 35.7% |
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY V MIDDLE SCHOOL BRONX | 146 | 94.5% | 43.8% |
| NEW MILLENNIUM BRONX ACADEMY OF THE ARTS BRONX | 126 | 95.2% | 32.5% |
| NEW PATHWAYS ACADEMY BRONX | 137 | 97.8% | 41.0% |
| SOUTH BRONX ACADEMY FOR APPLIED MEDIA BRONX | 169 | 97.0% | 33.3% |
Matched among New York middle 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 MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.5% | #756 of 766 | #73 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #753 of 768 ▼ 3 | #73 of 74 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #753 of 768 ▼ 53 | #74 of 74 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 148 | #749 of 796 | #65 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.9% | #50 of 773 | #34 of 75 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.3% | #46 of 524 | #19 of 59 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
148
-50 (-25%) vs 2020
-56% since 2010-11, when it was 338
Student : Teacher
8.0:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 148 | 18.4 | 8.0:1 | 96% (142) |
| 2023-24 | 167 | 24.8 | 6.7:1 | 98% (163) |
| 2022-23 | 182 | 19.8 | 9.2:1 | 97% (176) |
| 2020-21 | 198 | 20 | 9.9:1 | 90% (178) |
| 2017-18 | 244 | 22 | 11.1:1 | 95% (232) |
| 2015-16 | 199 | 16 | 12.4:1 | 82% (163) |
| 2010-11 | 338 | 21 | 16.1:1 | 86% (290) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR.
About MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR
MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR is a very small middle-grades school in New York, located in BRONX. It has an enrollment of 148 students in grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in New York enroll around 531, and this school is 72% below that mark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8 enrolls 21,621 students, and its 52 schools include MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR.
Federal enrollment data show MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR is 62% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 32% Black, 3% White, and 2% Native American. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
With 18.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 8.0:1. Statewide, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Roughly 96% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 2% of New York public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR is in the bottom 10% of New York schools: 18.5% actual against 39.7% predicted.
Census data for Bronx County show the median household earns about $48,676 a year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Bronx County number 472, with about 202,028 students.
PS 140 EAGLE SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest public school to MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR, less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 40.4%, higher than MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR's 18.5%.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
Enrollment fell 25% over 4 years, reaching 148 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 9.9:1 to 8.0:1 over the same years.
This page is set up for the MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8
- HERBERT H LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,087 students
- PS 71 ROSE E SCALAElementary · 1,079 students
- PS 14 SENATOR JOHN CALANDRAElementary · 718 students
- PS 36 UNIONPORTElementary · 660 students
- PS 152 EVERGREENElementary · 634 students
- PS 72 DR WILLIAM DORNEYElementary · 598 students
Other schools in BRONX
- 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
- PS 140 EAGLE SCHOOL (THE)0.1 mi · 335
- VIRTUAL INNOVATOR'S ACADEMY0.1 mi · 225
- PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS0.2 mi · 302
- NYC CHARTER HS - AECI0.2 mi · 450
- UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE HUMANITIES II0.2 mi · 250
- UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED MATH AND SCIENCE II0.2 mi · 492
Frequently asked questions
About MS 301 PAUL L DUNBARWhat is the total enrollment at MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR?
MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR enrolls approximately 148 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR serve?
MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR is approximately 8.0:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR?
At MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR, the student body is approximately 3% White, 62% Hispanic, 32% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR in?
MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.