Legacy College Preparatory Charter School

ELA proficiency at 51.5% essentially matches the District 7 average of 51.3%, but math at 41.9% trails the district by about 7 points. Science sits at 45.8%. The trend is volatile rather than directional: ELA dipped to 38% in 2019, bounced up to 52% in 2023, and has hovered in the high 40s to low 50s since. Math has swung even more wildly — from 32% in 2022 to nearly 49% in 2023 and back to 41.9% this year. By grade, 6th graders lead in ELA at 56.8%, but 8th grade math drops to just 35.7%, which is the academic weak spot parents should ask about.

Attendance at 91.2% is right at the district average, but chronic absenteeism at 68.8% is striking — roughly seven in ten students miss 10% or more of school days, which is a real flag. The flip side is a strikingly positive survey picture: parent satisfaction, parent-principal trust, teacher instruction quality, and teacher-principal trust all land at 93%, and teacher collegial trust is at 89%. Teacher-reported instruction quality (93%) is meaningfully above the district average of 88%. The day-to-day feel seems to be one of genuine warmth and mutual trust between home and school, even as the attendance numbers suggest too many students are slipping through the cracks.

Students here are 64% Hispanic and 34% Black, with an economic need index of 92.4% — meaning nearly all students come from low-income households. Twenty-one percent have IEPs. The student body mirrors the surrounding Mott Haven-Port Morris census almost exactly: predominantly Hispanic and Black families, deep poverty, and low adult education levels. Class size at 20.5 matches the district average. This is a school whose population and its neighborhood are essentially the same community.

Mott Haven-Port Morris is one of the poorest census tracts in the city — median household income is $29,110, the poverty rate is 40%, and just 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. Homeownership sits at only 6%, so most families are renters. Despite the low incomes, the median home value is high, a sign of the gentrification pressure that's reshaping parts of the South Bronx. It is a densely working-class, family-rooted neighborhood where most households are connected to the broader borough by transit.

Three subway options within walking distance: the 2 and 5 at 3 Av-149 St (about 5 minutes), the 6 at Brook Av (about 8 minutes), and the 6 at 3 Av-138 St (about 8 minutes) — unusually strong transit access for a Bronx school.