High School for Contemporary Arts

The dataset does not include published ELA or math proficiency scores for the school, so academic outcomes are hard to benchmark against the district averages of roughly 57% ELA and 56% math. The school offers AP courses and earns a 76.2/100 program richness score, which is solid for a school this small. The one academic signal we do have is the teacher-reported instruction quality at 79% — well below the district average of 92% — though that comes from just 13 survey responses, which limits how much weight it should carry.

Families are exceptionally happy here: 98% parent satisfaction, 99% parent-teacher trust, and 98% parent-principal trust, all comfortably above the district averages of 93%, 92%, and 95% respectively. The teacher view is more guarded — instruction quality at 79%, principal trust at 78%, and collegial trust at 69% all trail district averages, with the caveat that only 13 teachers responded to the survey, a very small sample. Discipline is essentially a non-issue: the school recorded zero suspensions in the data period, against a district average suspension rate of about 0.49%.

The student body is 39% Black and 54% Hispanic, with smaller shares of White (3%), Native American (2%), and Asian (1%) students, and a diversity index of 54% — a population concentrated in two groups rather than broadly mixed. The economic need index of 89.8 is high, signaling that most families carry real financial pressure. About a third of students (33%) have IEPs, and the school runs ELL support, which together point to a student body with significant learning needs that the school is set up to serve. This profile mirrors the surrounding Williamsbridge neighborhood, where the median household income is around $55,600 and roughly 22% of residents live below the poverty line.

Williamsbridge-Olinville is a working- and middle-class Bronx neighborhood where the median household income is about $55,600 and roughly 23% of residents are below the poverty line. About 31% of households own their homes, with a median home value near $518,000, and 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Roughly 14% of households include children under 18, and the area has a long-standing middle-class Black and Hispanic residential base.

Most families reach the school by subway on the 2 and 5 lines — Gun Hill Rd is about a 7-minute walk, Burke Av about 8 minutes, and 219 St about 13 minutes.