I.S. X318 Math, Science & Technology Through Arts

ELA proficiency at 24.2% and math at 22.9% land roughly 20 percentage points below the District 12 averages of 44.6% and 43.3%, respectively, and the school's overall score of 0.94 out of 4 sits well below the district's 1.76. The long-arc trend is more encouraging: ELA proficiency has climbed from 8.7% in 2016 to a 2024 peak of 28.6%, and math swung from a low of 3.9% in 2022 to 30.1% in 2024 before pulling back to 22.9% in 2025. Both subjects dipped from their 2024 highs this year, suggesting the gains weren't fully sustained — though the school remains far ahead of where it stood a decade ago.

The split between parent sentiment and student attendance is the defining story here. Parent satisfaction is 98% — well above the district's 91.8% — and parent-teacher and parent-principal trust both land in the high 90s, with 88% of families responding to the survey. On the teacher side, instruction quality sits at 84% (below the 88.4% district average) and teacher-principal trust at 83%, with only 34 teachers responding. The harder number is attendance: 87.5% overall against a 90.1% district average, and chronic absenteeism at 54.5%, meaning more than half of students miss enough school to be flagged — highest among Hispanic students at 57.5%. Discipline is mild — just two suspensions last year, down from six the year before — so the day-to-day climate appears orderly, even if getting kids through the door daily is the bigger challenge.

The student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (72%) and Black (27%), with a diversity index of 36%, closely reflecting the surrounding Tremont neighborhood where median household income is $32,208 and 36.2% of residents live below the poverty line. Thirty percent of students have IEPs and the school offers ELL support, mirroring the linguistic and economic needs of the area. With just 162 students across grades 6–8 and average class sizes around 22, most families and staff know each other by name.

Tremont is a dense, working-class section of the Bronx where roughly 36% of households live in poverty, median household income hovers around $32,000, and only about 7.5% of homes are owner-occupied. Just 13% of households have children at home, and the share of residents with a bachelor's degree sits around 15%. It's a transit-dependent area — most families don't own cars and rely on the subway to get around.

Families reach the school via the 2 and 5 lines: 174 St is roughly a 10-minute walk, West Farms Sq–E Tremont Av about 12 minutes, and Freeman St around 20 minutes.