PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
As a cozy 6-8 campus in BRONX, New York, PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT enrolls 281 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT sits 47% below that benchmark.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, which oversees 62 schools and 30,138 students, PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder reads as 14% White, 14% Black, 7% Asian. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.4%; this one delivers 46.5%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bronx County put median household income runs about $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%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BRONX GREEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.
PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT operates from a city-core location.
Over the past 7-year window. PELHAM ACADEMY OF ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 323 (now 281). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.
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