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What's something URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
530
High
DISTRICT 367 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9·NCES 360008605673
URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE)
1595 BATHGATE AVE, BRONX, NY 10457 · (718) 466-7800 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL530 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 7% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
521 students
DISTRICT 96% · 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 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 9 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 10 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 11 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 12 | 83 | 16% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
38.6%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.1pp since 2023
Math
31.6%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.4pp 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 32 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.6% | 31.6% |
| 2023-24 | 32.5% | 36.0% |
% 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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% 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 SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE)
URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE)'s state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) this school | 530 | 98.3% | 30.4% |
| SOUTH BRONX PREPARATORY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL BRONX | 603 | 95.7% | 42.1% |
| MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES BRONX | 445 | 96.2% | 44.0% |
| CAREERS IN SPORTS HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 446 | 94.8% | 31.7% |
| JUAN MOREL CAMPOS SECONDARY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 458 | 95.2% | 43.5% |
| THEATRE ARTS PRODUCTION COMPANY SCHOOL BRONX | 427 | 95.6% | 45.4% |
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 SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #1,075 of 1,135 | #125 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #863 of 1,109 ▼ 60 | #67 of 128 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #1,079 of 1,135 ▲ 43 | #125 of 136 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 530 | #505 of 1,216 | #25 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.9:1 | #54 of 1,058 | #10 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.5% | #655 of 1,070 | #97 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.3% | #14 of 1,167 | #12 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #321 of 743 | #56 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
530
-85 (-14%) vs 2020
-10% since 2010-11, when it was 590
Student : Teacher
7.9:1
was 9.6:1
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 | 530 | 67 | 7.9:1 | 98% (521) |
| 2023-24 | 570 | 61.4 | 9.3:1 | 95% (542) |
| 2022-23 | 586 | 68 | 8.6:1 | 94% (553) |
| 2020-21 | 615 | 64 | 9.6:1 | 94% (578) |
| 2017-18 | 615 | 54 | 11.4:1 | 95% (583) |
| 2015-16 | 622 | 51 | 12.2:1 | 93% (581) |
| 2010-11 | 590 | 44 | 13.4:1 | 87% (516) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE).
About URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE)
This page covers URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE), a small high school in BRONX, New York. The school enrolls 530 students in grades 6 through 12. High schools in New York average about 668 students, which makes this school 21% below average.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 is the district for URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE). It has 70 schools and 23,786 students.
More than half of the students at URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) are Hispanic (71%). The remaining shares are 28% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Bronx County's population at about 55%. The diversity index for URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) is 42%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school lists 67 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.9:1. The average for high schools in New York is 11.0:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 521 students, or 98%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 7% of New York public high schools.
URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) is 8.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (30.4% versus 38.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
Looking at the county, Bronx County, median household income comes to about $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 23%. The county's public schools total 472, with about 202,028 students.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, MOTT HALL BRONX HIGH SCHOOL, is the closest to URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 30.4% is below the 51.1% average for nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
The school shrank from 615 students in 2020-21 to 530 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 9.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 7.9:1.
On allk12, people connected to URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
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- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
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Nearby schools
- MOTT HALL BRONX HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 315
- VALIDUS PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.0 mi · 282
- PS 42 CLAREMONT0.1 mi · 311
- BRONX PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 860
- IS 3390.1 mi · 169
- IS 313 SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT0.1 mi · 99
Frequently asked questions
About URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE)How many students attend URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE)?
URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) enrolls approximately 530 students in grades 06-12.
Is URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many teachers does URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) have?
URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) employs 67 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.9:1.
What is the student diversity at URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE)?
Student demographics at URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) are roughly 0% White, 71% Hispanic, 28% Black, 0% Two or more.
What district is URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) in?
URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR APPLIED MATH AND SCIENCE (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9.
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