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BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES
Located at 610 HENRY ST, in BROOKLYN, New York, BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is a reasonably sized senior high that works with 586 students (grades 6 through 12), overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15.
Across the 51 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 (25,925 students total), BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES logs that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 27% Black, 23% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 55.6%.
In the surrounding community, Kings County reports that 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. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is one.
BROOKLYN NEW SCHOOL-PS 146 (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.7%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES has shrank 13%, going from 675 students in 2018 to 586 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 37% to 27%.
On the community side, members of the BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Kings County at a glance
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