NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE)

As a cozy elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE) enrolls 340 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 443.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, which oversees 70 schools and 23,786 students, NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE) is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE) records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 35% Black, 3% White.

In terms of school funding signals, NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE) records 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE) tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bronx County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.8%; this one delivers 20.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Bronx County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE) is one campus in the mix.

IS 229 ROLAND PATTERSON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY AT ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK (THE) ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 41.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 58%: 806 students in 2018 compared to 340 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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