At a Glance
A tiny screened aerospace high school in Williamsbridge where zero suspensions and near-unanimous parent trust define the daily experience.
Best suited for
Families who want a small, screened high school with a STEM/aerospace identity, a calm disciplinary climate, and strong family-teacher relationships, and who don't mind a 2/5 train commute to Williamsbridge.
Overall Rating
Rating = average of 4-year graduation, English Regents college-ready and Regents completion · DOE 2025 report
Bands are Motley's thresholds on a 0–100 scale, not New York State performance levels.
How this is scored→What stands out
- Zero suspensions — extraordinarily rare for any NYC high school and well below the District 11 average
- Screened admissions drew 335 applicants for 151 seats, a 50% offer rate that signals real family demand
- A quarter of students have IEPs, and the school supports them without any suspension activity
- Parent-principal trust at 95% and 93% satisfaction suggest families feel genuinely heard
- An aerospace-themed identity with AP courses and ELL support in a 171-student setting
Things to consider
- With only 171 students, course electives and the social circle are narrower than at a comprehensive high school
- Teacher-principal trust at 72% sits well below parent trust in leadership — a gap worth asking about on a tour
- State test proficiency data isn't shown, so academic outcomes are hard to benchmark against District 11
- An 84.8% economic need index and 25% IEP rate mean student supports may be stretched thin
- The Williamsbridge commute is doable on the 2/5 but requires a 7- to 13-minute walk from the station
Based on 2023-24 data
School SummaryDistrict 11
District 11 spans the north-central Bronx and is home to standout charters like Icahn 4 and the Bronx Charter for Excellence; Bronx Aerospace is a smaller, screened, themed option in that mix — noticeably calmer on discipline than the district average but harder to place academically without state test data.
Academics
State proficiency data isn't included in the available record, so we can't benchmark Bronx Aerospace against District 11's roughly 57% ELA and 56% math averages. What the record does show: the school offers AP courses alongside ELL support and Spanish, screened admissions drew 335 applicants for 151 seats, and average class size at 23.8 matches the district norm. The academic profile leans STEM and aerospace-themed, but hard outcome data isn't visible.
Culture
The headline here is zero suspensions — extraordinary for any NYC high school and well below the district average of roughly half a percent. Parents give the principal 95% trust and 93% satisfaction, with an 86% survey response rate suggesting real engagement, and teachers rate instructional quality at 95% with strong collegial trust (85%). One notable wrinkle: teacher-principal trust sits at 72%, meaningfully lower than the family-facing trust numbers and worth asking about at a tour.
Community
Students are predominantly Hispanic (56%) and Black (36%), with smaller Asian, White, and Native American populations, giving the school a diversity index of 55%. The economic need index of 84.8% means most students come from low-income households, and a full quarter of students have IEPs — a higher share than at most screened high schools. The student body is more economically disadvantaged than the surrounding Williamsbridge-Olinville census tract, where the median household income sits around $55,600 and the poverty rate is 22.5%, suggesting the school draws from a wider swath of the Bronx.
Neighborhood
Williamsbridge-Olinville is a residential pocket of the central Bronx with a median household income around $55,600, a poverty rate of 22.5%, and just 14% of households including children — meaning the surrounding blocks skew toward adult and multi-generational households rather than young families. About a third of residents own their homes and the college-degree rate sits near 20%, painting a working- and middle-class neighborhood with stable roots.
The 2 and 5 trains all stop within walking distance: Gun Hill Road is about 7 minutes on foot, Burke Avenue about 8 minutes, and 219 Street about 13 minutes.
Survey Results
NYC School Survey (2025) · 313 families responded (86% rate)
Programs & Activities
Admissions Demand
Qualifying students will be admitted into our Aviation Program. Accepted students will learn about the engineering and aerodynamics behind flying aircrafts. Students will attend Vaughn College for Aeronautics to complete Ground School and earn college credits while preparing to pass the FAA Written Exam. Students will have access to the FMX REDBIRD Flight Simulator to begin flight training in addition to logging flight hours that can be applied towards their Private Pilot's License.
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
Discipline
NYSED Student & Educator Database
Economic Need & Special Populations
How to get in, step by step
High school (9th grade)
High school is one citywide application, made in 8th grade. Bronx Aerospace High School admits through 2 programs, and each one has its own admissions method:
- Bronx Aerospace High SchoolEd. Opt.
- Dual Language Spanish ProgramScreened34 seats
High school application
- Opened
- Tue, Oct 6
- Closes
- Fri, Dec 4
- Offers
- Wed, Mar 3
The DOE’s published dates.
- 1Apply on MySchools during the high school application, in 8th grade.
- 2Screened programs rank the 7th-grade core-course average, so last year's final grades are the ones that count.
- 3Educational Option programs fill in equal shares across three reading levels, half by the school's ranking and half by lottery.
- 4Rank programs in true preference order — the match places your child in the highest-ranked one that offers a seat.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Bronx Aerospace High School a good school?
- On Motley, Bronx Aerospace High School earns an overall rating of 48/100 — the average of the school's four-year graduation rate, the share of its students scoring college-ready (70+) on the English Regents, and its Regents completion rate, shown out of 100.
- What grades does Bronx Aerospace High School serve?
- Bronx Aerospace High School serves grades 9 to 12.
- How do students get into Bronx Aerospace High School?
- Bronx Aerospace High School is a screened school — it admits by application, ranking applicants on their course grades (4th grade for middle school, the 7th-grade core-course average for high school); a few schools add an assessment, writing sample, or interview.
- Is Bronx Aerospace High School public, charter, or private?
- Bronx Aerospace High School is a public school in NYC Community School District 11.
- What neighborhood is Bronx Aerospace High School in?
- Bronx Aerospace High School is in Williamsbridge-Olinville, Bronx.