WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE

As an one-room-style four-year high school in BRONX, New York, WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE enrolls 168 students from grades 9 through 12, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8. That puts it 75% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE is one of 52 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, a district that serves 21,621 students overall.

Looking at the student body, WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 27% Black, 13% Asian, 10% White, 4% Native American. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.0:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.3%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the broader community, Bronx County reports that median household income runs about $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE is one.

The closest other public school is BRONX MATHEMATICS PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE), roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WOMEN'S ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE has fell 39%, going from 276 students in 2018 to 168 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 41% to 27% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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