Bronx High School for Law and Community Service is a
small school in the
New York City
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borough
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History
In the Middle Ag ...
of
The Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
. It is located within
Roosevelt Educational Campus, across the street from
Fordham University
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.
As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 416 students and 25.8 classroom teachers (on an
FTE basis), for a
student–teacher ratio
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of 16.1:1. There were 357 students (85.8% of enrollment) eligible for
free lunch
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and 18 (4.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
[School data for Bronx High School-Law And Community Service]
National Center for Education Statistics
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. Accessed December 12, 2016.
References
External links
Page on NYC DOE websiteListing on insideschools.org
Public high schools in the Bronx
Belmont, Bronx
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