New York City Geographic District # 8 School District

New York City Geographic District 8 serves 24,000 students across 52 schools in the Bronx. Fifty-one of those schools carry a ranked score, and the district's average sits at 5.7 out of 10. That district-wide average is the right baseline for evaluating any school here: one that clears 7.0 is performing well above its district peers, and District 8 has several that do.

The district's highest score belongs to PS 182, an elementary school rated 8.2 — 2.5 points above the district average and the top-performing school in District 8. PS 304 Early Childhood School follows at 8.0, and PS 36 Unionport earns a 7.8. That puts three elementary schools comfortably above the district mean, giving families with young children multiple strong options within the same geographic area.

The secondary schools hold up. The School for Inquiry and Social Justice, the district's top-ranked middle school, scores 8.0 — matching PS 304's rating and sitting 2.3 points above the district average. Bronx Bridges High School earns an 8.0 as well, making it the district's highest-scoring high school and more than two points above the overall mean. Parents planning the full K–12 path can find above-average options at every stage of the journey.

With 24,000 students and a district average of 5.7, real variation exists between District 8's top and bottom performers. The five highest-rated schools all clear 7.8 — a 2.1-point gap above the mean. That spread is what rewards careful research. The district is not uniformly strong, but its upper tier delivers consistent separation from the district baseline at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, making individual school selection the most important decision a family in District 8 will make.