Enrollment
166
High
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23·NCES 360012105997
BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY
985 ROCKAWAY AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11212 · (718) 342-6348 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL166 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of New York public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
157 students
DISTRICT 94% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 19 | 11% |
| Grade 10 | 36 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 54 | 33% |
| Grade 12 | 56 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 1% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -14.0pp since 2023
Math
12.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 12.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 4.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
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 BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY
BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY's state test result (23.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY this school | 166 | 94.6% | 23.0% |
| UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE HUMANITIES IV ROCKAWAY PARK | 189 | 91.5% | 44.7% |
| RESEARCH AND SERVICE HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 184 | 90.8% | 21.8% |
| DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BROOKLYN | 132 | 92.4% | 27.5% |
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP (THE) BROOKLYN | 213 | 93.4% | 39.5% |
| BROOKLYN FRONTIERS HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 160 | 93.8% | 43.8% |
Matched among New York high 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 BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #1,118 of 1,135 | #133 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.0% | #1,084 of 1,109 ▲ 19 | #125 of 132 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,066 of 1,135 ▼ 138 | #115 of 137 ▼ 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 166 | #1,118 of 1,216 | #126 of 146 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.6% | #90 of 1,167 | #16 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.1% | #146 of 743 | #34 of 70 |
Ranked against other public high 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
166
+44 (+36%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 204
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 8.1:1
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 | 166 | 19.5 | 8.5:1 | 95% (157) |
| 2023-24 | 175 | 18.5 | 9.5:1 | 90% (158) |
| 2022-23 | 140 | 17 | 8.2:1 | 86% (120) |
| 2020-21 | 122 | 15 | 8.1:1 | 92% (112) |
| 2017-18 | 213 | 13 | 16.4:1 | 82% (175) |
| 2015-16 | 163 | 13 | 12.5:1 | 64% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 204 | 14 | 14.6:1 | 65% (133) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY.
About BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY
BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY is a public high school run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 in BROOKLYN, New York. Its grade span covers grades 9 through 12, with 166 students on the rolls. Across high schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 668.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 has 28 schools; together they serve 7,257 students.
More than half of the students at BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY are Black (64%). The rest of enrollment is 30% Hispanic and 3% Native American. Census estimates put the Black share of Kings County's population at about 28%. The diversity index for BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY is 50%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school lists 19.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.5:1. Statewide, high schools in New York average 11.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 95% of the student body. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Kings County is 79%.
Among New York public high schools, BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY outscored 2%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 40.2%. BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY scores 23.0%.
Census data for Kings County show the median household earns about $80,263 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Counting BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY, Kings County has 583 public schools.
METROPOLITAN DIPLOMA PLUS HIGH SCHOOL sits less than a tenth of a mile from BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY ranks 8th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts increased from 122 (2020-21) to 166 (2024-25).
The discussion board for BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
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Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN IIHigh · 662 students
- BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 512 students
- PS 156 WAVERLYElementary · 421 students
- PS 184 NEWPORTElementary · 395 students
- BROOKLYN LANDMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 378 students
- PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZElementary · 339 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
- METROPOLITAN DIPLOMA PLUS HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 153
- KAPPA V (KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREP ACADEMY)0.0 mi · 97
- UNCOMMON BROWNSVILLE SOUTH CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.0 mi · 748
- CULTURAL ARTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL AT SPRING CREEK0.1 mi · 221
- PS 165 IDA POSNER0.2 mi · 213
- MOTT HALL IV0.3 mi · 108
Frequently asked questions
About BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMYHow large is BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY?
BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 166 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY serve?
BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY?
Approximately 8.5:1 students per teacher at BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY.
How diverse is BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY?
BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY reports a student body of 2% White, 30% Hispanic, 64% Black, 1% Asian.
Is BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY public or private?
BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.