SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in BRONX, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, with 336 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 37% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

Across the 70 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 (23,786 students total), SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 25% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 40.1%; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL posts 63.6%, +23.5 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bronx County put the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BRONX EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 42.0%.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 450 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 29% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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