Enrollment
459
High
DISTRICT 381 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19·NCES 360012006045
BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL
999 JAMAICA AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11208 · (718) 235-3592 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL459 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
395 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 | 142 | 31% |
| Grade 10 | 117 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 85 | 19% |
| Grade 12 | 115 | 25% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
57.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
33.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 28.0% |
% 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
39.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 LAB SCHOOL
BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL's state test result (39.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL this school | 459 | 86.1% | 39.7% |
| BRONX RIVER HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 419 | 84.5% | 52.0% |
| ARCHIMEDES ACAD-MATH SCI TECH BRONX | 468 | 91.7% | 36.6% |
| URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE HEALTHCARE (THE) BROOKLYN | 377 | 82.5% | 31.7% |
| ANTONIA PANTOJA PREPARATORY ACADEMY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL BRONX | 394 | 90.9% | 40.8% |
| MANHATTAN EARLY COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR ADVERTISING NEW YORK | 390 | 85.1% | 58.2% |
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 LAB SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #949 of 1,135 | #88 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #842 of 1,109 ▲ 62 | #74 of 132 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #834 of 1,135 ▲ 150 | #71 of 137 ▲ 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 459 | #604 of 1,216 | #49 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #477 of 1,058 | #50 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.8% | #495 of 1,070 | #69 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.1% | #330 of 1,167 | #80 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.4% | #82 of 339 | #23 of 53 |
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
459
+53 (+13%) vs 2020
+46% since 2010-11, when it was 315
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 459 | 42.5 | 10.8:1 | 86% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 430 | 32.2 | 13.4:1 | 89% (384) |
| 2022-23 | 395 | 33.7 | 11.7:1 | 87% (344) |
| 2020-21 | 406 | 35 | 11.6:1 | 89% (362) |
| 2017-18 | 391 | 26 | 15.0:1 | 87% (340) |
| 2015-16 | 329 | 18 | 18.3:1 | 78% (255) |
| 2010-11 | 315 | 24 | 13.1:1 | 83% (263) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL.
About BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL
This page covers BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL, a small high school in BROOKLYN, New York. Enrolled students number 459 students, in grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in New York average about 668 students each.
BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL falls under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, which has 53 schools enrolling 18,619 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL, with 67% of enrollment. It is also 20% Black and 9% Asian. Kings County's residents are about 19% Hispanic, 48 points below the school's share. BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL's diversity index is 50%, against a US figure of 70%.
Dividing enrollment by its 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 10.8:1. That matches the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York fairly closely. Eligible students account for 86% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL would be expected to post about 43.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 39.7%.
Across Kings County, the median household income is $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kings County is home to 583 public schools and about 291,697 public school students.
The closest public school, MULTICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile from BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 459, a 13% rise from 406 in 2020-21.
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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 #19
- TRANSIT TECH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 795 students
- PS 214 MICHAEL FRIEDSAMElementary · 728 students
- PS 159 ISAAC PITKINElementary · 661 students
- PS 108 SAL ABBRACCIAMENTOElementary · 649 students
- EAST NEW YORK FAMILY ACADEMYHigh · 610 students
- PS 7 ABRAHAM LINCOLNElementary · 589 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
- MULTICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 282
- CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 413
- URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE HEALTHCARE (THE)0.0 mi · 377
- ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY0.0 mi · 390
- PS 7 ABRAHAM LINCOLN0.3 mi · 589
- IS 171 ABRAHAM LINCOLN0.5 mi · 276
Frequently asked questions
About BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL?
BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL enrolls approximately 459 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL serve?
BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL have?
BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
What is the student diversity at BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 67% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL?
BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 in Kings County.
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