BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

As a substantial 9-12 campus in BROOKLYN, New York, BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL enrolls 5,848 students from grades 9 through 12, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 775% bigger than typical.

BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 42 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, a district that works with 19,151 students overall.

Looking at the student body, BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Asian, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 24% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL has 294 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Kings County's rate of about 79%.

With demographic context factored in, BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL 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 53.4%; BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL posts 100.0%, +46.6 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kings County) reports that median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

KHALIL GIBRAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.4%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 5,839 students in 2018 compared to 5,848 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

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