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Enrollment
591
High
DISTRICT 477 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14·NCES 360011905699
BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL
257 N 6TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11211 · (718) 486-2550 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL591 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% 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.
- CBeats 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
14.1:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
518 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 175 | 30% |
| Grade 10 | 159 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 136 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 121 | 20% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
53.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -12.0pp since 2023
Math
26.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
42.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% 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 PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL
BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (42.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 591 | 87.6% | 42.3% |
| ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL FAR ROCKAWAY | 605 | 86.0% | 32.8% |
| WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 665 | 87.4% | 32.7% |
| HIGH SCHOOL OF COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY BRONX | 472 | 87.1% | 49.2% |
| A-TECH HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 444 | 86.9% | 52.3% |
| UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED MATH AND SCIENCE II BRONX | 492 | 89.0% | 55.2% |
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 PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.3% | #893 of 1,135 | #75 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #941 of 1,109 ▼ 176 | #94 of 132 ▼ 41 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #910 of 1,135 ▼ 183 | #83 of 137 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 591 | #446 of 1,216 | #32 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #942 of 1,058 | #94 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.1% | #397 of 1,070 | #57 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.6% | #286 of 1,167 | #65 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.2% | #95 of 339 | #25 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
591
+61 (+12%) vs 2020
+56% since 2010-11, when it was 380
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 591 | 41.8 | 14.1:1 | 88% (518) |
| 2023-24 | 567 | 40.8 | 13.9:1 | 85% (484) |
| 2022-23 | 555 | 39 | 14.2:1 | 84% (467) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 35 | 15.1:1 | 85% (453) |
| 2017-18 | 513 | 35.1 | 14.6:1 | 88% (450) |
| 2015-16 | 519 | 35 | 14.8:1 | 80% (413) |
| 2010-11 | 380 | 26 | 14.6:1 | 91% (345) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL.
About BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL
BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, located in BROOKLYN, New York, is a medium-sized high school. The school counts 591 students across grades 9 through 12.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 is the district for BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL. It has 38 schools and 15,288 students.
BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is 54% Hispanic by enrollment. Other groups include 41% Black and 2% White. The county population is about 19% Hispanic. BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL's diversity index is 54%, against a US figure of 70%.
A ratio of 14.1:1 comes from the school's 41.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The lunch program counts 88% of students at BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Kings County, the average is 79%.
allk12 grades BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL a C. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL's results are within a point of predicted: 42.3% against 42.8%.
BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is located in Kings County, where the median household income is $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Besides BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, Kings County has 582 other public schools.
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN is the nearest neighboring public school, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 7th of 8 nearby schools, at 42.3% versus a 60.8% average.
The NCES locale for BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 12% enrollment gain, from 530 in 2020-21 to 591 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 14.1:1, from 15.1:1.
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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 #14
- IS 318 EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOSMiddle · 1,028 students
- BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL (THE)High · 772 students
- WILLIAMSBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOLHigh · 667 students
- PS 31 SAMUEL F DUPONTElementary · 644 students
- PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGOElementary · 636 students
- WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNHigh · 622 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
- WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN0.0 mi · 622
- WILLIAMSBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 667
- PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH0.1 mi · 197
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-WILLIAMSBURG0.4 mi · 247
- JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS0.4 mi · 388
- BROOKLYN ARBOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 552
Frequently asked questions
About BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL?
BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 591 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 14.1:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL?
At BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 54% Hispanic, 41% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.