BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL operates as a compact secondary school in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16. Current enrollment sits at 353 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL sits 47% leaner than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 5,175 students; BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 21% Hispanic. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -12.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RESEARCH AND SERVICE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL has contracted 14%, going from 412 students in 2018 to 353 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 9% to 21% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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