Bronx Park Middle School

The headline here is the climb, not the current ranking. ELA proficiency rose from about 20% in 2016 to 52.3% in 2025, and math went from roughly 15% to 42.4% — both sizable jumps in a school that was, a decade ago, near the bottom. Today the school's 52.3% ELA sits a few points below the district average of about 57%, and the 42.4% math score trails the district's 55.6% by a wider margin, so there's still real work to do. The bright spot is eighth grade: 70.5% of those students are proficient in ELA, well above the district average, suggesting the gains compound as students mature here.

Families clearly like this school. Parent satisfaction is 93% and parent-teacher trust is 95%, both around or above the district average, with a 94% parent-principal trust score that suggests the front office is approachable. Teachers rate instruction quality at 99%, far above the district's 92%, and the discipline data is clean — only 3 suspensions last year, down from 7 a few years prior. The honest caveat is attendance: the 87.9% attendance rate trails the district's 91.2%, and 53.8% of students are chronically absent, meaning more than half miss enough school to meaningfully affect learning.

The student body is 65% Hispanic, 16% Black, 12% White, and 6% Asian, with an economic need index of 85.7 — meaning most students come from lower-income households. About 21% of students have IEPs, which is meaningfully higher than the citywide average and means this is a school accustomed to supporting a wide range of learners. The Allerton neighborhood around the school mirrors that profile closely: median household income around $46,600 and roughly a quarter of residents living below the poverty line, so the families in the building are the families in the surrounding blocks.

Allerton is a residential, middle-of-the-road Bronx neighborhood where about 15.5% of households include children and roughly 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree — a working- and middle-class area with a sizable immigrant presence and a homeownership rate under 16%. Homes here carry a median value around $535,000, but the area is more practical than polished, the kind of place where neighbors know each other and the subway, not the car, is how most families get around.

The school is a roughly 6-minute walk from Allerton Av on the 2 and 5 lines and about 8 minutes from Pelham Pkwy on the same lines, with the 5 train at Morris Park about 12 minutes on foot.