BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY

Located at 350 CONEY ISLAND AVE, in BROOKLYN, New York, BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY is a reasonably sized high school that serves 634 students (grades 9 through 12), run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, which oversees 40 schools and 30,207 students, BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment; the rest reads as 12% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 47.1%; this one delivers 80.5%, a residual of +33.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Kings County shows median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY is one.

MS 839 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 622 students in 2018 compared to 634 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 68% to 73%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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