South Bronx Community Charter High School

No school-level proficiency or growth data is available in this profile, so academic outcomes can't be benchmarked directly. What we can read from the numbers: the average class size is 20.5, very close to the district average of 20.79, so students aren't getting unusually small sections. The economic need index of 89.1% means nearly every student arrives from a high-need background, which puts the school in the harder-working end of the district. With 24% of students classified as IEP, inclusion is clearly part of the school's daily reality.

The family-side signals are genuinely strong: parent satisfaction is 89%, parent-teacher trust 90%, and parent-principal trust 89% — all indicating parents feel respected and connected. But there's a noticeable gap on the staff side. Teachers rate instructional quality at 80%, well below the district average of 90%, and teacher-principal trust sits at 75%. The bright spot is teacher collegial trust at 93%, meaning the staff pulls together even if the relationship between teachers and leadership feels strained. Two caveats worth noting: only 18% of families responded to the survey, and only 20 teachers did, so both sets of numbers come from a relatively small slice of the community.

The student body is 59% Hispanic and 38% Black, with the remaining small share split across other groups — a profile that closely mirrors Morrisania itself, where the surrounding census shows a low-income, predominantly renter population. With an economic need index of 89.1, most students arrive navigating significant financial pressure at home. At 24%, the IEP rate is well above typical, which signals a school that serves students with a wide range of learning needs rather than one that screens them out.

Morrisania is a densely populated, low-income neighborhood where most households rent rather than own (homeownership is just 8.9%), median income sits around $33,000, and about a third of residents live below the poverty line. Only 11.5% of households have children, which means the immediate area skews more working-age adults than young families. Just under 15% of adults have a bachelor's degree or higher, a marker of how limited higher-education access has historically been here.

No subway is truly at the doorstep — families are looking at a 13-minute walk to the 167 St stop on the B and D lines, about 15 minutes to Prospect Av on the 2 and 5, or 16 minutes to 170 St on the B and D. That's a real commute for teens, especially in winter, and worth factoring in for any family considering the lottery.