Bronx Charter School for Excellence 4

Proficiency rates here are exceptional for District 11: 82.3% in ELA and 79.7% in math, both well above district averages of 56.7% and 55.6% respectively. The trajectory is the more striking story — ELA proficiency climbed from 53.2% in 2022 to 82.3% in 2025, while math jumped from 57.1% to a peak of 82.6% in 2024 before easing slightly this year. Grade 3 is the standout, with 98.3% math proficiency, and grades 3, 4, 5, and 7 all clear 80% in ELA. Results taper in grades 6 and 7 math, where scores dip into the high 60s and high 70s.

Daily attendance is strong at 95.6% (above the district's 91.2%), but chronic absenteeism is reported at 89.4%, which is very high and worth flagging — even small absences add up over a school year. The parent side of the picture is excellent: 95% parent satisfaction, 95% parent-teacher trust, and 94% parent-principal trust, with a healthy 48% family survey response rate. Among teachers, instruction quality (94%), principal trust (96%), and reported safety (92%) are all strong, but collegial trust between teachers sits at just 71% — notably lower than the other teacher measures and a signal worth watching.

The student body is 81% Black and 14% Hispanic, with small shares of Asian, White, and multiracial students, giving a diversity index of 36% — moderate but not especially varied. Fourteen percent of students have IEPs, and the economic need index of 71.5% indicates a population with meaningful economic disadvantage. Wakefield-Woodlawn itself is a working- and middle-income neighborhood with a median household income of $73,320 and a 17.7% poverty rate, so the school's economic profile runs a little more stretched than the census tract around it.

Wakefield-Woodlawn is a residential, largely car-oriented stretch of the northern Bronx, where 43.7% of households own their homes and the median home value sits near $554,000 — solid for the borough. About 15.5% of households have children, and nearly 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, putting the neighborhood in a comfortable middle band of Bronx demographics. With only a 17.7% poverty rate, it skews more stable than many neighboring areas.

The school is a roughly 12-minute walk from the Wakefield-241 St station on the 2 line, about 14 minutes from Nereid Av on the 2 and 5, and around 19 minutes from Eastchester-Dyre Av on the 5 — so most families will drive or use school transportation rather than the subway.