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The High School of World Cultures is one of the five schools housed in the James Monroe High School in the Bronx and offers instruction for "new arrival" students. The school caters to approximately 400 students from over 32 nations. The faculty of 20 is diverse and represents eleven different countries.

HSWC has been officially designated a "B" school by the NYC Department for Education in 2009 although the results were 0.6% away from an "A".

Education in the Bronx

Public
schools

Charter	Bronx Preparatory Charter Eagle Academy for Young Men John V. Lindsay Wildcat Acad

Closed	PS 15 PS 17 Jane Addams HS Samuel Gompers HS John F. Kennedy HS Morris HS Theodore Roosevelt HS William Howard Taft HS Walton HS

Private
schools

Catholic
schools

Closed	Aquinas Hall Business School Clason Point Military Academy Manhattan Preparatory School Maplehurst Academy of the Sacred Heart Mother Butler High School Mount St. Vincent Academy St. Anselm St. Augustine Academy St. Brendan Academy St. Joseph St. Nicholas of Tolentine St. Nicholas of Tolentine HS St. Pius V HS Ursuline Academy

Colleges and
universities

Public	Bronx Community College Hostos Community College Lehman College SUNY Maritime College

Private	Boricua College Bronx Campus Albert Einstein College of Medicine Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology Fordham University Manhattan College Metropolitan College of New York Monroe College Mount Saint Vincent

Libraries

Closed or moved
institutions

This list is incomplete.