ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM

ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM is one of the compact high schools in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, with 402 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, which oversees 49 schools and 16,990 students, ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM shows that the largest single group is Black, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.2%; this one delivers 52.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kings County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 92%: 209 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 77% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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