SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III

SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in BRONX, New York, operated by SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III. Current enrollment sits at 518 students spanning grades K through 8.

SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III is the operating authority for SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III records that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 39.2%; actual is 92.7%, +53.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bronx County) logs that median household income runs about $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOUTH BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL III is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 88%: 276 students in 2018 compared to 518 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 48% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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