Emolior Academy

ELA proficiency at 43.1% is essentially at the district average of about 44.6%, while math at 37.8% trails the district's 43.3%. The headline isn't where the scores sit today — it's how far they've come. ELA has more than tripled since 2016 (12.1% → 43.1%), and math has more than doubled (17.2% → 37.8%), with the steepest gains in the last two years. Seventh graders are the strongest cohort, hitting 44.8% in ELA and 44% in math; eighth grade math at 27.7% is the soft spot. Overall score of 1.62/4 sits just below the district average of 1.76, which means the school is in the same general band as its peers even if not yet at the top.

The day-to-day feel at Emolior is defined by unusually tight parent-school trust: 98% parent satisfaction, 99% parent-teacher trust, and 99% parent-principal trust, all well above the district averages. Teachers report strong trust in their principal (92%) and in each other (92%), and 89% rate instruction quality positively — slightly above the district's 88.4%. The discipline picture is mostly calm: just 7 suspensions last year for a 2% rate (above the district's 0.4%, but in absolute terms very few kids), with a slight uptick from 4 the prior year. The big flag is chronic absenteeism at 62.3%, meaning nearly two-thirds of students miss enough school to be flagged — even though the overall attendance rate of 90.3% is right at the district average. The split suggests a core group attends reliably while a large tail of students is missing too many days.

Emolior's 370 students are predominantly Hispanic (67%) and Black (22%), with 7% Asian students and small slices of White, Native American, and multiracial enrollment. That mix reflects West Farms itself, a neighborhood where most families are working-class and roughly 46.5% of households live below the poverty line. The economic need index of 91.1 confirms a high-poverty student body, and 24% of students have IEPs — a meaningfully higher share than many middle schools. With 324 families responding to the survey (an 82% response rate), this is a parent body that shows up.

West Farms is a working-class pocket of the central Bronx where median household income is around $27,829 and nearly half of residents live below the poverty line. Only about 9.5% of households have children under 18, and just 10.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree, so families here are often navigating school systems without the shorthand that more affluent neighborhoods take for granted. Homeownership is unusually low at 5.6%, meaning most families rent. The neighborhood is transit-accessible, which matters for families who don't drive.

The school is right at West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue station on the 2 and 5 lines — about a two-minute walk. E 180th Street (2 and 5) is roughly eight minutes on foot, and 174th Street (2 and 5) is about nine minutes away, giving families multiple subway stops to choose from.