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Enrollment
502
High
DISTRICT 367 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9·NCES 360008606345
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX
1865 MORRIS AVE, BRONX, NY 10453 · (718) 731-2590 · Bronx County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL502 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of New York public high schools
- CTest 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
467 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 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 9 | 101 | 20% |
| Grade 10 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 11 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 70 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
48%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
55.3%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.4pp since 2023
Math
36.6%
NY avg 57.4% . -18.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.3% | 36.6% |
| 2023-24 | 59.7% | 55.1% |
% 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
45.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX's state test result (45.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX this school | 502 | 93.0% | 45.2% |
| LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY FOR NEWCOMERS NEW YORK | 460 | 90.2% | 55.7% |
| KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREP ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 461 | 94.4% | 42.2% |
| ALFRED E SMITH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 412 | 92.7% | 37.5% |
| BRONX INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 411 | 94.6% | 64.5% |
| BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY BRONX | 429 | 90.4% | 45.0% |
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 YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #822 of 1,135 | #57 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #786 of 1,109 ▼ 218 | #56 of 128 ▼ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.3% | #866 of 1,135 ▼ 35 | #72 of 136 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 502 | #539 of 1,216 | #27 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #503 of 1,058 | #63 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.3% | #537 of 1,070 | #61 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.0% | #135 of 1,167 | #71 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.7% | #167 of 339 | #19 of 32 |
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
502
-55 (-10%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 502 | 46 | 10.9:1 | 93% (467) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 44.5 | 11.6:1 | 87% (449) |
| 2022-23 | 535 | 44 | 12.2:1 | 90% (479) |
| 2020-21 | 557 | 39 | 14.3:1 | 88% (492) |
| 2017-18 | 462 | 36 | 12.8:1 | 87% (402) |
| 2015-16 | 330 | 25 | 13.2:1 | 88% (291) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX.
About YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX is a small high school in BRONX, New York, (ZIP code 10453). A federal count lists 502 students at the school, in grades 6 through 12. Average enrollment for high schools in New York is about 668, so this school runs 25% smaller than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 includes 70 schools. Together they enroll 23,786 students.
Roughly 67% of students at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 26% Black and 4% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 55%. YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX's diversity index is 48%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at the school number 46 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.9:1. That matches the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York fairly closely. The school's lunch program data list 93% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
The allk12 Grade for YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX is C+. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 35% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX is 4.4 points above its prediction. Actual: 45.2%. Predicted: 40.8%.
County data help place the school in context: in Bronx County, the median household income is $48,676, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. In all, Bronx County has 472 public schools and roughly 202,028 students.
The closest public school, IS 117 JOSEPH H WADE, is less than a tenth of a mile from YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 37.8%; YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX's is 45.2%, ranking 2nd of 9.
Locale data from NCES put YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Enrollment at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX dropped 10% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 557 to 502 students. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.9:1) than in 2020-21 (14.3:1).
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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
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- COMPREHENSIVE MODEL SCHOOL PROJECT MS 327High · 670 students
- PS 53 BASHEER QUISIMElementary · 600 students
- PS 204 MORRIS HEIGHTSElementary · 576 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
- IS 117 JOSEPH H WADE0.0 mi · 320
- PS 236 LANGSTON HUGHES0.1 mi · 303
- BRONX SCHOOL OF YOUNG LEADERS (THE)0.2 mi · 342
- PS 3060.2 mi · 379
- PS 28 MOUNT HOPE0.3 mi · 556
- PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD0.3 mi · 729
Frequently asked questions
About YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONXHow large is YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX?
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX enrolls approximately 502 students in grades 06-12.
Is YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX an elementary, middle, or high school?
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many teachers does YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX have?
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX?
At YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX, the student body is approximately 2% White, 67% Hispanic, 26% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX public or private?
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF THE BRONX is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.