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Enrollment
436
Middle
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008702202
THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45
2502 LORILLARD PL, BRONX, NY 10458 · (718) 584-1660 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL436 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of New York public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
420 students
DISTRICT 91% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 145 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 134 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 156 | 36% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
34.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
24.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -65.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 65 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 24.8% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 90.0% |
% 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
38.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45
THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45's state test result (38.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 this school | 436 | 96.3% | 38.1% |
| IS 254 BRONX | 406 | 98.5% | 31.5% |
| CRESTON ACADEMY BRONX | 418 | 96.4% | 36.1% |
| JHS 123 JAMES M KIERNAN BRONX | 466 | 95.3% | 31.9% |
| SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) BRONX | 377 | 95.2% | 48.5% |
| PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA NEW YORK | 372 | 92.7% | 33.3% |
Matched among New York middle 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 THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.1% | #633 of 766 | #43 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.8% | #735 of 768 ▼ 616 | #66 of 74 ▼ 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #624 of 768 ▼ 43 | #53 of 74 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 436 | #407 of 796 | #11 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #476 of 683 | #37 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.4% | #529 of 688 | #48 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.3% | #48 of 773 | #33 of 75 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.7% | #54 of 524 | #23 of 59 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
436
-267 (-38%) vs 2020
-57% since 2010-11, when it was 1,015
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 436 | 38.6 | 11.3:1 | 96% (420) |
| 2023-24 | 407 | 40 | 10.2:1 | 96% (391) |
| 2022-23 | 472 | 40.7 | 11.6:1 | 97% (459) |
| 2020-21 | 703 | 53 | 13.3:1 | 92% (649) |
| 2017-18 | 700 | 50 | 14.0:1 | 97% (680) |
| 2015-16 | 730 | 49 | 14.9:1 | 96% (703) |
| 2010-11 | 1,015 | 71 | 14.3:1 | 93% (943) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45.
About THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45
THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 is a small middle-grades school in BRONX, New York, under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10. There are 436 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 runs 83 schools with a combined 40,459 students. THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 is one of them.
Roughly 81% of students at THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 14% Black. County-wide, 55% of Bronx County residents are Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 32%.
Its staff includes 38.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 11.3 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in New York, 10.3:1, is lower. THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 96%.
THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 29% of New York public middle schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45's results are 1.5 points below predicted: 38.1% against 39.6%.
The school is in Bronx County, where the median household earns about $48,676 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 23%. Across Bronx County, 472 public schools serve about 202,028 students.
BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 ranks 6th of 9 on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell 38% over 4 years, reaching 436 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.3:1 to 11.3:1 over the same years.
The discussion board for THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,212 students
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSElementary · 1,091 students
- IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368)High · 953 students
- PS 95 SHEILA MENCHERElementary · 851 students
Other schools in BRONX
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL IIICombined · 2,390 students
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- ATMOSPHERE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 1,481 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
Nearby schools
- BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 334
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE0.1 mi · 367
- FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY0.1 mi · 369
- FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS0.1 mi · 351
- KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREP ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 461
- WEST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE0.1 mi · 575
Frequently asked questions
About THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45How many students attend THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45?
THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 enrolls approximately 436 students in grades 06-08.
Is THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 an elementary, middle, or high school?
THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 have?
THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45?
At THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45, the student body is approximately 1% White, 81% Hispanic, 14% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 in?
THOMAS C GIORDANO MIDDLE SCHOOL 45 is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10.
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