SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY

SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY operates as a very small elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7. Current enrollment sits at 91 students spanning grades 2 through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 79% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY is one of 41 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7, a district that instructs 13,625 students overall.

On the student-mix side, SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 29% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.3%; SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY posts 6.5%, -35.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Bronx County reports that the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

Nearest neighbor: BGLIG-SHIRLEY RODRIGUEZ-REMENESKI CS, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTH BRONX LITERACY ACADEMY at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

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