BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL

BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is a 9-12 campus of low-enrollment scale in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, enrolling 338 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 49% leaner than typical.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, which oversees 42 schools and 19,151 students, BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 17% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.9%; BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL posts 87.2%, +41.2 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

PS 3 BEDFORD VILLAGE (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 8%, going from 368 students in 2018 to 338 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 77% to 67% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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