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What's the one class at BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY every student should take?
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Enrollment
469
High
DISTRICT 273 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16·NCES 360009404079
BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY
1396 BROADWAY, BROOKLYN, NY 11221 · (718) 919-1256 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of New York public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
13.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
424 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 124 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 105 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 102 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 138 | 29% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -16.0pp since 2023
Math
35.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 43.0% |
% 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
43.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY
BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY's state test result (43.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY this school | 469 | 90.4% | 43.3% |
| GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 557 | 89.2% | 45.5% |
| ACADEMY FOR YOUNG WRITERS BROOKLYN | 398 | 89.2% | 34.9% |
| SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 453 | 89.4% | 72.3% |
| ROCHESTER EARLY COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 458 | 87.6% | 28.7% |
| ACAD-SCHOLARSHIP & ENTREPRENEURSHIP BRONX | 437 | 89.7% | 41.3% |
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 HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #875 of 1,135 | #73 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #804 of 1,109 ▼ 85 | #67 of 132 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,010 of 1,135 ▼ 198 | #105 of 137 ▼ 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #586 of 1,216 | #48 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #874 of 1,058 | #84 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #377 of 1,070 | #54 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.4% | #207 of 1,167 | #46 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.7% | #152 of 743 | #35 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
469
-157 (-25%) vs 2020
+14% since 2010-11, when it was 413
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 469 | 34.9 | 13.4:1 | 90% (424) |
| 2023-24 | 485 | 36.7 | 13.2:1 | 88% (426) |
| 2022-23 | 549 | 38.9 | 14.1:1 | 84% (461) |
| 2020-21 | 626 | 39 | 16.1:1 | 84% (526) |
| 2017-18 | 599 | 35.2 | 17.0:1 | 86% (516) |
| 2015-16 | 641 | 31 | 20.7:1 | 79% (505) |
| 2010-11 | 413 | 18 | 22.9:1 | 44% (183) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY.
About BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY
The public high school BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY is located in BROOKLYN, New York. Students in grades 9 through 12 attend, and enrollment is 469 students. The school's enrollment is 30% smaller than the 668 average for high schools in New York.
District-wide, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 has 23 schools and 5,175 students.
Roughly 60% of students at BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY are Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 2% White. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 28%. BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY's diversity index is 55%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teacher staffing is 34.9 full-time equivalents, or about 13.4 students per teacher. On average, high schools in New York have 11.0:1, compared with 13.4:1 here. About 90% of students, or 424, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Kings County average 79%.
allk12 grades BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY a C. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY is 1.6 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (43.3% versus 41.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
County data help place the school in context: in Kings County, the median household income is $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. In all, Kings County has 583 public schools and roughly 291,697 students.
The school nearest to BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY is UNCOMMON EXCELLENCE GIRLS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY places 6th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment at BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY dropped 25% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 626 to 469 students. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.4:1) than in 2020-21 (16.1:1).
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16
- PS 40 GEORGE W CARVERElementary · 465 students
- PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKSElementary · 430 students
- BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 353 students
- BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOLElementary · 352 students
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF GLOBAL FINANCE (THE)High · 222 students
- PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIRElementary · 218 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
- UNCOMMON EXCELLENCE GIRLS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.2 mi · 871
- PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE)0.2 mi · 194
- BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 530
- PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIR0.2 mi · 218
- PS 299 THOMAS WARREN FIELD SCHOOL0.2 mi · 229
- PS 75 MAYDA CORTIELLA0.3 mi · 185
Frequently asked questions
About BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGYWhat is the total enrollment at BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY?
BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY enrolls approximately 469 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY serve?
BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY have?
BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
What is the student diversity at BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY?
Student demographics at BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY are roughly 2% White, 30% Hispanic, 60% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY?
BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 in Kings County.
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