BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE)

Set in BROOKLYN, New York, BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) is a minimally staffed 9-12 campus, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32. It caters to 267 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) sits 60% leaner than that benchmark.

BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) is one of 27 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32, a district that works with 8,794 students overall.

Demographically, BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%); the rest breaks down as 10% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

After controlling for student poverty, BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -8.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) is one.

The closest other public school is ACADEMY OF URBAN PLANNING AND ENGINEERING (THE), roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE)'s enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 267). Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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