BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL

Set in BROOKLYN, New York, BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL is a close-knit secondary school, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19. It hosts 459 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 31% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Across the 53 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 (18,619 students total), BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 20% Black, 9% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL records 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Around the school, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is MULTICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 17% since 2018, when it stood at 391 (now 459). Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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