BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE, a very small secondary school in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, enrolls 154 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 77% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

Across the 42 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 (19,151 students total), BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE reports that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 45% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.8%.

Around the school, Kings County reports 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%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE is one campus in the mix.

BROOKLYN COMMUNITY ARTS AND MEDIA HIGH SCHOOL (BCAM) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE. On composite proficiency, BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.0%.

BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE has decreased 14%, going from 179 students in 2018 to 154 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 67% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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