SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE)

SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) is one of the small 6-8 campuss in BRONX, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, with 377 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) sits 29% below that benchmark.

SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) is one of 52 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, a district that works with 21,621 students overall.

On demographics, SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bronx County) reports that median household income runs about $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

JHS 123 JAMES M KIERNAN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE). Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 28%: 523 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 24% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

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