Enrollment
238
High
DISTRICT 260 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18·NCES 360009605966
BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL
6565 FLATLANDS AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11236 · (718) 968-1072 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL238 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 23% 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
14.9:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
206 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 45 | 19% |
| Grade 10 | 94 | 39% |
| Grade 11 | 57 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 42 | 18% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
57.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +43.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 43 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 15.0% |
% 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
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
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 THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL
BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL this school | 238 | 86.6% | 41.5% |
| CAPITAL PREPARATORY (CP) HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 185 | 86.5% | 42.5% |
| GOTHAM PROFESSIONAL ARTS ACADEMY BROOKLYN | 219 | 84.5% | 59.0% |
| EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF HARLEM NEW YORK | 228 | 89.9% | 28.8% |
| URBAN ACTION ACADEMY BROOKLYN | 178 | 87.1% | 37.0% |
| RESEARCH AND SERVICE HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 184 | 90.8% | 21.8% |
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 THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #905 of 1,135 | #77 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #448 of 1,109 ▲ 597 | #19 of 132 ▲ 90 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #832 of 1,135 ▼ 21 | #69 of 137 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 238 | #1,021 of 1,216 | #107 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #980 of 1,058 | #98 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.4% | #608 of 1,070 | #80 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.6% | #321 of 1,167 | #77 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.0% | #68 of 743 | #13 of 70 |
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
238
-50 (-17%) vs 2020
-28% since 2010-11, when it was 332
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 238 | 16 | 14.9:1 | 87% (206) |
| 2023-24 | 193 | 16.1 | 12.0:1 | 85% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 216 | 18 | 12.0:1 | 85% (184) |
| 2020-21 | 288 | 27 | 10.7:1 | 85% (246) |
| 2017-18 | 366 | 20 | 18.3:1 | 82% (301) |
| 2015-16 | 373 | 18 | 20.7:1 | 80% (299) |
| 2010-11 | 332 | 20 | 16.6:1 | 75% (250) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL.
About BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL
BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL is a high school with a street address in BROOKLYN, New York. It is open to students in grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 238 students. That is 64% below the average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL is part of a district of 34 schools: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, with 11,062 students.
Black students are 69% of those enrolled at BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL. Next come 27% Hispanic. That compares with about 28% Black among all Kings County residents. A diversity index of 44% means there is a 44% chance two randomly chosen students at BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
There are 16 full-time-equivalent teachers at BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 14.9:1. High schools in New York have an average ratio of 11.0:1. By family income, 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 23% of New York public high schools.
Test results at BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL are 1.7 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (41.5% actual, 43.2% predicted).
In Kings County, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Across Kings County, 583 public schools serve about 291,697 students.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY, is the closest to BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL. Among its closest neighbors with test data, BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL is 5th of 8 on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 238, compared with 288 in 2020-21. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.9:1) than in 2020-21 (10.7:1).
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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
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- PS 66Elementary · 527 students
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- ACADEMY FOR CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENTHigh · 432 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
- BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY0.0 mi · 253
- BROOKLYN BRIDGE ACADEMY0.0 mi · 143
- VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 290
- ACADEMY FOR CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT0.0 mi · 432
- IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE0.4 mi · 237
- PS 251 PAERDEGAT0.4 mi · 329
Frequently asked questions
About BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL?
BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 238 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL serve?
BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL?
At BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 27% Hispanic, 69% Black, 2% Two or more.
Is BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18.
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