BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY

BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY operates as a rural-scale four-year high school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. Current enrollment sits at 253 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 62% smaller than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 11,062 students. BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY lists that 68% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school records 17% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 81% of students at BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows that median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY is one.

Nearest neighbor: ACADEMY FOR CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY has grew 31%, going from 193 students in 2018 to 253 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 80% to 68% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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