BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY

BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY is a modestly sized intermediate school in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. The school educates 399 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 11,062 students. BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY records that nearly all students (85%) are Black. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.5%; BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY posts 68.8%, +23.3 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is PS 244 RICHARD R GREEN, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY has expanded 56%, going from 255 students in 2018 to 399 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 93% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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