BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of the reasonably sized senior highs in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15, with 890 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS sits 33% above that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 25,925 students. BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS shows that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Hispanic, 14% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS logs 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 67% of students are eligible 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 59.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

EXPLORATORY SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 864 students in 2018 compared to 890 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 68% to 46% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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