Bronx Leadership Academy High School

The school's own proficiency numbers aren't in this dataset, so what's worth reading is the program it runs with only 350 students: AP courses are offered, Mandarin is on the schedule, and there's dedicated ELL support alongside a 33% IEP population — both meaningfully served in a school this size. A program-richness score of 56/100 is moderate, reflecting the lean sports catalog (basketball, softball, volleyball only) more than the academics. The four-to-one applicant ratio is itself a signal that families believe the academic experience is worth competing for, even if the school's small enrollment limits how many elective paths it can sustain.

The day-to-day feel here reads unusually orderly for a high school: zero suspensions in the most recent reporting period against a district average suspension rate of 0.42%, and every teacher who responded rated the quality of instruction in their classroom as strong. Parent-principal trust is the highest survey score at 95%, with parent-teacher trust close behind at 93%, and parent satisfaction sits at 93% — slightly below the district average of 94% but well within the same ballpark. The caveats are sample size: only 30 teachers and 105 families returned surveys, so the picture is consistent but comes from a self-selected slice of the community.

The student body is 63% Hispanic and 32% Black, with small White, Asian, and Native American contingents — a population that mirrors the broader Bronx District 9 community more than the immediate census tract around the school. At 33%, the share of students with IEPs is on the high side and signals a school that wraps services into the daily fabric rather than tracking kids off into a separate program. The surrounding neighborhood skews older and child-light (about 10% of households have kids), which suggests a meaningful share of these students commute in from other parts of the Bronx rather than walking over from down the block.

Claremont Village-Claremont (East) is a densely residential pocket of the central Bronx where median household income sits around $30,475, about 44% of residents live below the poverty line, and only about 11% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. Renting is the norm — homeownership is under 3% — and just 1 in 10 households includes children, which makes the neighborhood feel more like a community of adults and seniors than a young-family enclave. The school leans into this by drawing students from a wider catchment than its immediate blocks.

There is no subway at the door — the closest options are the B and D at 174-175 Sts (about 9 minutes on foot) or Tremont Av (about 11 minutes), with the 4 train at 176 St roughly 12 minutes away.