BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT is a senior high of rural-scale scale in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, caters to 245 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT sits 63% smaller than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 16,990 students. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT shows that 73% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 16% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Zooming out to the 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 the poverty rate sits near 15%. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

Nearest neighbor: BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR MUSIC & THEATER, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.0%.

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT has shrank 33%, going from 368 students in 2018 to 245 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 81% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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