SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP

SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP is a compact intermediate school in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8. The school instructs 240 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 55% below the state mean of about 531.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8 runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 21,621 students. SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 24% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.3:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -8.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP is one.

The closest other public school is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX 4, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP. On composite proficiency, SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 38%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 34% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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