ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS

ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS operates as an one-room-style high school in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17. Current enrollment sits at 159 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 76% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 16,990 students; ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS is among them.

Demographically, ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS logs that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 25% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.1%; this one delivers 26.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is PATHWAYS IN TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL (P-TECH), roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 51.1%.

ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 55%: 356 students in 2018 compared to 159 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 79% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

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