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Enrollment
410
Elementary
DISTRICT 389 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9·NCES 360008606150
SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS
1116 SHERIDAN AVE, BRONX, NY 10456 · (718) 538-3411 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL410 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
397 students
DISTRICT 96% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 64 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
33.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 40.0% |
% 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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% 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 SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS
SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS this school | 410 | 96.8% | 30.4% |
| PS 108 ASSEMBLYMAN ANGELO DEL TORO EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX NEW YORK | 367 | 96.2% | 30.8% |
| PS 6 WEST FARMS BRONX | 417 | 98.6% | 26.3% |
| FAMILY SCHOOL (THE) BRONX | 405 | 96.3% | 57.7% |
| LONGWOOD ACADEMY OF DISCOVERY (THE) BRONX | 439 | 98.6% | 17.6% |
| PS 114 LUIS LLORENS TORRES SCHOOL BRONX | 458 | 97.8% | 22.5% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #1,999 of 2,335 | #169 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,794 of 2,342 ▼ 126 | #147 of 212 ▼ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #2,035 of 2,343 ▲ 139 | #181 of 212 ▲ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #1,300 of 2,585 | #112 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #1,279 of 2,338 | #105 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.0% | #1,468 of 2,388 | #125 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.8% | #96 of 2,534 | #51 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #901 of 1,757 | #133 of 153 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
410
-90 (-18%) vs 2020
-6% since 2010-11, when it was 436
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 410 | 34.1 | 12.0:1 | 97% (397) |
| 2023-24 | 436 | 31.8 | 13.7:1 | 97% (422) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 31 | 13.5:1 | 97% (408) |
| 2020-21 | 500 | 37 | 13.5:1 | 97% (486) |
| 2017-18 | 477 | 33 | 14.4:1 | 97% (462) |
| 2015-16 | 598 | 41 | 14.6:1 | 89% (532) |
| 2010-11 | 436 | 32 | 13.6:1 | 89% (388) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS.
About SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS
SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS is a medium-sized elementary school in New York, with an address in BRONX. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 410 students enrolled.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 has 70 schools and 23,786 students, and SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS is one of those schools.
Roughly 71% of students at SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 23% Black and 4% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 55%. Pick two students at random and there is a 44% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS, 34.1 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 12.0:1. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Roughly 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
After adjusting for student poverty, SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 30.4%; the prediction is 39.4%.
Among Bronx County residents, the median household income is $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 23%. Besides SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS, Bronx County has 471 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, FAMILY SCHOOL (THE), is less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS is 9th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 18% from its 2020-21 level of 500. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.5:1 to 12.0:1 over the same years.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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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Nearby schools
- FAMILY SCHOOL (THE)0.0 mi · 405
- JHS 22 JORDAN L MOTT0.2 mi · 262
- BRONX WRITING ACADEMY0.2 mi · 184
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL0.3 mi · 336
- GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 353
- BRONX EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING0.3 mi · 370
Frequently asked questions
About SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERSWhat is the total enrollment at SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS?
SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS enrolls approximately 410 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS serve?
SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS is approximately 12.0:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS?
At SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS, the student body is approximately 0% White, 71% Hispanic, 23% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS public or private?
SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.