BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE)

Located at 284 BALTIC ST, in BROOKLYN, New York, BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE) is a medium-sized secondary school that works with 743 students (grades 6 through 12), overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 25,925 students; BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE) is among them.

On demographics, BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE) logs that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 24% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE) records 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 50% of students at BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Kings County's rate of about 79%.

After controlling for student poverty, BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of +4.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household earnings sit near $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE) is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE) ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 68.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. BOERUM HILL SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (THE)'s enrollment has edged up 17% since 2018, when it stood at 633 (now 743). Black enrollment moved from 35% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.