Enrollment
338
High
DISTRICT 678 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13·NCES 360009105508
BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL
1119 BEDFORD AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11217 · (718) 398-3061 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL338 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 95% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
267 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 74 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 86 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 93 | 28% |
| Grade 12 | 85 | 25% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
93.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 95.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
87.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+41.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 41 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL
BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (87.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 338 | 79.0% | 87.2% |
| ACADEMY FOR CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT BROOKLYN | 432 | 78.9% | 33.8% |
| CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY HOLLIS | 359 | 79.9% | 39.7% |
| BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY BROOKLYN | 253 | 80.6% | 46.0% |
| QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 320 | 83.1% | 39.0% |
| ALBANY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ALBANY | 383 | 81.2% | 24.6% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.2% | #101 of 1,135 | #4 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #122 of 1,109 ▼ 80 | #5 of 132 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #113 of 1,135 ▼ 36 | #6 of 137 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 338 | #857 of 1,216 | #86 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #751 of 1,058 | #71 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.7% | #472 of 1,070 | #63 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.0% | #460 of 1,167 | #123 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #490 of 743 | #56 of 70 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
338
-56 (-14%) vs 2020
-7% since 2010-11, when it was 363
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 15.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 338 | 27.3 | 12.4:1 | 79% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 357 | 32.6 | 11.0:1 | 79% (282) |
| 2022-23 | 381 | 26.6 | 14.3:1 | 70% (267) |
| 2020-21 | 394 | 25 | 15.8:1 | 74% (293) |
| 2017-18 | 368 | 22 | 16.7:1 | 73% (270) |
| 2015-16 | 364 | 18 | 20.2:1 | 59% (216) |
| 2010-11 | 363 | 21 | 17.3:1 | 56% (205) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL.
About BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL
BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is a small high school that serves part of BROOKLYN, New York. It educates 338 students in grades 9 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in New York is about 668 students.
Besides BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 runs 41 other schools. The district enrolls 19,151 students.
Black students make up a majority at BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, at 67%. The remaining shares are 17% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% White, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Kings County's population at about 28%. BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL's diversity index is 51%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reports 27.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 12.4 students per teacher. That is 1.3 students per teacher above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 79% of students. For comparison, public schools in Kings County average 79%.
The allk12 Grade for BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is A+. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 95% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is 41.2 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in New York.
Kings County census figures show that the median household income is $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Kings County is home to 583 public schools and about 291,697 public school students.
The next-closest public school is PS 3 BEDFORD VILLAGE (THE), about 0.2 miles away. BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL's average proficiency of 87.2% compares with 43.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 14% from 2020-21, when BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL had 394 students, to 2024-25, when it had 338. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 15.8:1 to 12.4:1.
The BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- PS 11 PURVIS J BEHANElementary · 923 students
- BENJAMIN BANNEKER ACADEMYHigh · 854 students
- PS 9 SARAH SMITH GARNET SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 782 students
- ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERSElementary · 757 students
- PS 20 CLINTON HILLElementary · 689 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- PS 3 BEDFORD VILLAGE (THE)0.2 mi · 174
- URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 172
- PS 56 LEWIS H LATIMER0.4 mi · 253
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 108
- PS 256 BENJAMIN BANNEKER0.4 mi · 178
- ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS0.5 mi · 757
Frequently asked questions
About BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL?
BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 338 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL have?
BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL?
At BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 5% White, 17% Hispanic, 67% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL?
BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.