The top reported proficiency rate is 45% in English language arts. The lowest is 35% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on School for Environmental Citizenship
The School for Environmental Citizenship sits on East 181st Street in the Bronx, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade within New York City Geographic District 10. Its name points toward a curricular orientation, though the data here does not include detailed program descriptions, so a parent interested in exactly how environmental themes shape daily instruction would want to ask the school directly.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with Black students making up most of the remaining enrollment, and the school serves a community that is almost entirely economically disadvantaged by free and reduced-price lunch eligibility. Pre-K carries a substantial share of total enrollment, which gives the school a younger-skewing population relative to a typical elementary. IEP and English learner rates were not available in the data.
State assessment results on the New York State Testing Program are reported for grades three through five in math, ELA, and fifth-grade science. Math proficiency runs from roughly below the midpoint in third and fourth grade to approaching the midpoint in fifth grade, with the fifth-grade cohort performing noticeably stronger than the earlier grades. ELA follows a similar arc, with third grade below the midpoint, fourth grade just above it, and fifth grade posting the school's strongest result across any tested subject. Science proficiency in fifth grade comes in below the math and ELA marks for that same cohort. Among the small group of schools compared within Bronx County districts for which this data was compiled, the school's overall proficiency index sits in the top quartile, meaning it outperforms most of that group on the combined measure. A parent should keep in mind that the comparison set here is drawn from Bronx County schools in the available data, not a broader statewide picture. Multi-year trend data was not available, so whether these results represent improvement, stability, or decline from prior years cannot be said.
Because this school ends at fifth grade, there is no graduation rate, and no AP or career-pathway data applies. Those measures are not missing from the data so much as structurally not applicable to a PK-5 setting.
One district-level change worth knowing: District 10 entered the second phase of the city's NYC Reads mandate, meaning the school was required beginning in the 2024-25 school year to shift to a phonics-based reading curriculum from a list of three approved options, replacing whatever approach the school had previously used. This is a concrete change in how early reading is taught, and parents of children currently learning to read are entering a different instructional environment than families experienced a few years ago. Publicly reported accounts describe it as one of the most sweeping literacy overhauls in the city's recent history.
For fifth graders moving toward middle school, the district recently changed middle school admissions to allow applications citywide while preserving in-district priority. High school admissions have also shifted back toward academic screening, with seventh-grade averages now the main sorting mechanism for access to selective seats. Families planning ahead will want to understand how their child's performance in these elementary years positions them within those tiers.
The housing market surrounding the school is priced above both the state and national medians, with home values having risen over the past year and rents running high even by New York standards. The Bronx more broadly is in an active development phase, with a large volume of new affordable housing under construction or recently completed across multiple neighborhoods. East 181st Street is within the borough's denser apartment corridors, and the area is well-connected by subway, which matters practically for families thinking about school commutes and daily life.
Chronic absenteeism data was not available, which is a gap worth raising with the school given how directly attendance at the elementary level connects to early literacy and math outcomes.
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