# METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL (THE)

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009005809`
- **School name**: METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL (THE)
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10459
- **Address**: 1180 REV J A POLITE AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12 (LEAID `3600090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.82772, -73.89700
- **Phone**: (718)991-4634
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105519602

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 172
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.5%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 72.0% (cohort of 90)
- **2019**: 57.0% (cohort of 114)
- **2018**: 47.0% (cohort of 101)
- **2017**: 52.0% (cohort of 91)
- **2016**: 57.0% (cohort of 74)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.6% (71 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.3% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 37.6% (62 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 134.6% (222 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0
- **Restraint incidents**: 0
- **Seclusion incidents**: 0
- **Referrals to law enforcement**: 0
- **Bullying allegations**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 74.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 22.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 71.5% — 118 students
- **English Learners**: 61.8% — 102 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 67 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 27 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $18,408
- **Poverty rate**: 40.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.1%
- **Unemployment**: 19.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,177
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.1 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 58
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.63 miles (1428 EDGEWATER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.83136 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BRONX LATIN SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 3.93% (this school: 10.3%)
- **DR RICHARD IZQUIERDO HEALTH AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 1.85% (this school: 10.3%)
- **NYC AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.3%)
- **PS 186 WALTER J DAMROSCH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.3%)
- **PHAROS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 2.14% (this school: 10.3%)

### graduation rate
- **BRONX LATIN SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 96% (this school: 72%)
- **DR RICHARD IZQUIERDO HEALTH AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 92% (this school: 72%)
- **PHAROS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 95% (this school: 72%)
- **BRONX INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 91% (this school: 72%)
- **MORRIS ACADEMY FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES** — 0.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 72%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/metropolitan-high-school-the-bronx/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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