Enrollment
298
Middle
DISTRICT 183 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13·NCES 360009106704
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY
29 6 AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11217 · (718) 875-1021 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL298 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
140 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 133 | 45% |
| Grade 7 | 76 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 87 | 29% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 1% |
Student demographics
74%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
77.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
81.7%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 81.7% |
| 2023-24 | 74.0% | 77.8% |
% 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
78.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% 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 21 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 BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY's state test result (78.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY this school | 298 | 47.0% | 78.6% |
| RED HOOK NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 168 | 47.0% | 44.3% |
| FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY BROOKLYN | 228 | 64.5% | 46.5% |
| CIRCLEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL CIRCLEVILLE | 466 | 52.1% | 56.6% |
| RICHARD J BAILEY SCHOOL WHITE PLAINS | 404 | 45.0% | 56.4% |
| CLEVELAND HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL CHEEKTOWAGA | 305 | 63.6% | 51.6% |
Matched among New York middle 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 BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.6% | #64 of 766 | #10 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.7% | #173 of 768 ▲ 22 | #14 of 91 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #61 of 768 ▲ 3 | #9 of 91 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 298 | #564 of 796 | #46 of 102 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #426 of 683 | #36 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.0% | #18 of 688 | #4 of 68 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.0% | #446 of 773 | #86 of 92 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
298
0 (0%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.5:1
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 | 298 | 27.6 | 10.8:1 | 47% (140) |
| 2023-24 | 253 | 26.1 | 9.7:1 | 48% (121) |
| 2022-23 | 258 | 26.1 | 9.9:1 | 41% (106) |
| 2020-21 | 298 | 26 | 11.5:1 | 35% (103) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY.
About BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY is classified as a middle school. It is located in BROOKLYN, New York. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 298 students in grades 6 through 8. Against the 531-student average for middle schools in New York, enrollment here is 44% lower.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 is made up of 42 schools with 19,151 students in all.
At BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY, the largest share of students is Black, at 39%. The school is also 25% White, 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 6% Asian. That is higher than the 28% Black share among all Kings County residents. BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY's diversity index is 74%, against a US figure of 70%.
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY operates with 27.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 10.8:1. For comparison, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. About 47% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The 79% average for public schools in Kings County is 32 points higher.
Measured against New York public middle schools, BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY does better than predicted by 20.9 points. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 78.6%; the prediction is 57.7%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Kings County, the median household income is $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY is one of 583 public schools in the county.
Nearby, DESIGN WORKS is less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY is 1st of 6 nearby schools with test data.
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY had 298 students in 2020-21 and 298 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
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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
- DESIGN WORKS0.0 mi · 163
- MS 266 PARK PLACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 75
- PS 770.3 mi · 397
- PS 753 SCHOOL FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT0.3 mi · 408
- EXPLORATORY SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 518
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS0.4 mi · 890
Frequently asked questions
About BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITYHow large is BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY?
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY enrolls approximately 298 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY serve?
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY have?
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY?
At BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY, the student body is approximately 25% White, 18% Hispanic, 39% Black, 6% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY in?
BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13.
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