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Enrollment
413
High
DISTRICT 367 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7·NCES 360008405504
URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE)
339 MORRIS AVE, BRONX, NY 10451 · (718) 401-4891 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of New York public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
7.9:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
400 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 29 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 43 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 9 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 10 | 104 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 12 | 67 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
39.1%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
22.4%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.1% | 22.4% |
| 2023-24 | 34.3% | 17.0% |
% 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
23.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% 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 URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE)
URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE)'s state test result (23.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) this school | 413 | 96.9% | 23.7% |
| BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY II HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 381 | 96.6% | 33.2% |
| BRONX LEADERSHIP ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 371 | 98.7% | 32.8% |
| LONGWOOD PREPARATORY ACADEMY BRONX | 352 | 96.0% | 32.7% |
| NYC CHARTER HS - AECI BRONX | 450 | 99.6% | 60.5% |
| EDWARD A REYNOLDS WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 348 | 94.5% | 43.5% |
Matched among New York high 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 URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #1,111 of 1,135 | #132 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #983 of 1,109 ▲ 48 | #94 of 128 ▲ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #1,074 of 1,135 ▲ 42 | #123 of 136 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #679 of 1,216 | #54 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.9:1 | #55 of 1,058 | #11 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.0% | #467 of 1,070 | #43 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.9% | #32 of 1,167 | #22 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.6% | #88 of 743 | #30 of 96 |
Ranked against other public high 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
413
-204 (-33%) vs 2020
-28% since 2010-11, when it was 572
Student : Teacher
7.9:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 413 | 52 | 7.9:1 | 97% (400) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 53.5 | 9.0:1 | 97% (467) |
| 2022-23 | 542 | 55.6 | 9.7:1 | 95% (517) |
| 2020-21 | 617 | 59 | 10.5:1 | 94% (582) |
| 2017-18 | 595 | 57 | 10.4:1 | 90% (538) |
| 2015-16 | 590 | 43 | 13.7:1 | 90% (529) |
| 2010-11 | 572 | 39 | 14.7:1 | 85% (485) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE).
About URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE)
A low-enrollment high school in BRONX, New York, URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7. It has an enrollment of 413 students in grades 6 through 12. That compares with an average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7 has 13,625 students in 41 schools, and URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) is one of those schools.
Federal enrollment data show URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) is 62% Hispanic. Other groups include 32% Black and 4% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
Staffing at URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) comes to 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 7.9:1. High schools in New York have an average ratio of 11.0:1. On the income side, 97% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public high schools, URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) outscored 2%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) would score about 39.4%. It scores 23.7%, 15.7 points below that figure.
In the surrounding county, Bronx County, the median household earns about $48,676 a year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Bronx County has 472 public schools with about 202,028 students, including URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE).
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 is the nearest public school to URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE), less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) is 8th of 9 on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 413, down from 617 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 10.5 in 2020-21 to 7.9 in 2024-25.
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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 # 7
- HERO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 733 students
- LABORATORY SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND TECHNOLOGY (THE): X223High · 646 students
- PS 5 PORT MORRISElementary · 630 students
- PS/MS 29 MELROSE SCHOOLElementary · 606 students
- SOUTH BRONX PREPARATORY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 603 students
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SECONDARY SCHOOL-BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGEHigh · 596 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
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 10.0 mi · 513
- FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II0.2 mi · 858
- PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER0.2 mi · 271
- COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE0.3 mi · 185
- HEALTH OPPORTUNITIES HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 228
- FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL III0.3 mi · 163
Frequently asked questions
About URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE)What is the total enrollment at URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE)?
URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) enrolls approximately 413 students in grades 06-12.
What age range does URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) serve?
URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) serves students from grade 06 through grade 12.
How many teachers does URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) have?
URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.9:1.
How diverse is URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE)?
URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) reports a student body of 4% White, 62% Hispanic, 32% Black.
Is URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) public or private?
URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7.
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