Mount Eden Children's Academy

Mount Eden's 2025 proficiency rates — 57.1% in ELA and 61% in math — put it comfortably above the District 9 averages of roughly 45% in both subjects, and its overall score of 2.36 out of 4 is well above the district's 1.79. The trajectory is the more striking story: ELA has climbed roughly 24 percentage points since 2016, and math nearly 22 points, with the biggest single-year jump happening between 2024 and 2025. Scores dip a bit in the upper grades (Grade 5 math is 46.8%), suggesting the strongest results in the early elementary years, but the schoolwide improvement is genuine and sustained.

Parents give the school a near-perfect thumbs-up — 95% satisfaction, 99% trust in the principal, and 100% say there are strong relationships between teachers and families. Teachers rate their own instruction at 100% and trust their principal at 92%, but teacher-reported safety sits at just 63%, well below the district's 83%. There have been zero suspensions in each of the last three years, which is unusually calm for an elementary. The tension in the data is chronic absenteeism: 76.5% of students are chronically absent, meaning most kids are missing enough school to be flagged, even though the daily attendance rate of 93.1% looks fine at first glance.

The student body is 82% Hispanic and 16% Black, with a diversity index of just 31% — one of the less racially mixed schools in the city. The economic need index of 88.8 means most students come from low-income households, and 15% have IEPs. The surrounding neighborhood reflects that profile: median household income around $45,000, a poverty rate above 30%, and only 4.4% of households owning their homes. PTA fundraising totals just $2 per student, a sign that families contribute what they can but the school's enrichment budget is thin.

Mount Eden-Claremont (West) is a working-class, renter-heavy stretch of the Bronx where most households earn under $50,000 a year and nearly a third live below the poverty line. Only about a fifth of households include children, so this school is drawing from a relatively small pool of local families. Just 16% of neighborhood adults have a bachelor's degree, and homeownership is rare at under 5%. The school sits in a densely built area served by the 4 train at Mount Eden Avenue and 170th Street, plus the B and D at 170th Street, so getting here by subway is straightforward.

Two 4-train stops — Mt Eden Av and 170 St — are each about a four-minute walk, and the B and D at 170 St is roughly six minutes on foot.