Enrollment
319
Middle
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8·NCES 360008505122
MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ
681 KELLY ST, BRONX, NY 10455 · (718) 901-3520 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL319 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of New York public middle schools
- C-Test 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
310 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 | 112 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 91 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 115 | 36% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
41%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
43.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
44.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
40.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ
MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ's state test result (40.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ this school | 319 | 97.2% | 40.9% |
| ANGELO PATRI MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) BRONX | 333 | 97.6% | 36.0% |
| IS 117 JOSEPH H WADE BRONX | 320 | 98.4% | 24.7% |
| MS 390 BRONX | 311 | 97.7% | 42.3% |
| IS 303 LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE BRONX | 291 | 99.0% | 36.4% |
| HIGHBRIDGE GREEN SCHOOL (THE) BRONX | 383 | 99.7% | 38.7% |
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 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #596 of 766 | #33 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #582 of 768 ▲ 88 | #30 of 74 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #447 of 768 ▼ 66 | #27 of 74 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 319 | #533 of 796 | #29 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #411 of 683 | #28 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.6% | #452 of 688 | #35 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.2% | #31 of 773 | #20 of 75 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.7% | #64 of 524 | #28 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
319
-133 (-29%) vs 2020
-56% since 2010-11, when it was 724
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 319 | 29.7 | 10.7:1 | 97% (310) |
| 2023-24 | 312 | 31.4 | 9.9:1 | 96% (300) |
| 2022-23 | 360 | 38 | 9.5:1 | 95% (343) |
| 2020-21 | 452 | 40 | 11.3:1 | 98% (445) |
| 2017-18 | 481 | 36 | 13.4:1 | 94% (454) |
| 2015-16 | 495 | 37 | 13.4:1 | 91% (450) |
| 2010-11 | 724 | 58 | 12.5:1 | 100% (721) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ.
About MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ
MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ is a middle-grades school in BRONX, New York, and it is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8. The school's 319 students are in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 40% lower than the average for middle schools in New York, which is about 531.
MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ falls under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, which has 52 schools enrolling 21,621 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ, with 74% of enrollment. It is also 20% Black and 3% White. Bronx County's residents are about 55% Hispanic, 19 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 41% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ, 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 10.7:1. That matches the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York fairly closely. Roughly 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.
allk12 grades MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ a C+. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ scores 40.9% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 39.3%.
County data help place the school in context: in Bronx County, the median household income is $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. In all, Bronx County has 472 public schools and roughly 202,028 students.
The nearest other public school, GIRLS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE BRONX, is less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 38.9%; MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ's is 40.9%, ranking 3rd of 8.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 133 fewer students in 2024-25.
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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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- PS 36 UNIONPORTElementary · 660 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
- GIRLS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE BRONX0.0 mi · 402
- URBAN DOVE TEAM CHARTER SCHOOL II0.1 mi · 285
- PS 130 ABRAM STEVENS HEWITT0.1 mi · 291
- PS 62 INOCENSIO CASANOVA0.2 mi · 427
- PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL0.2 mi · 303
- SOUTH BRONX EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 266
Frequently asked questions
About MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZWhat is the total enrollment at MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ?
MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ enrolls approximately 319 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ serve?
MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ.
What is the racial breakdown of students at MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ?
At MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ, the student body is approximately 3% White, 74% Hispanic, 20% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ public or private?
MS 302 LUISA DESSUS CRUZ is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8.
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