CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL

CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL operates as a roomy secondary school in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17. Current enrollment sits at 1,325 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 98% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 16,990 students; CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL records 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.5%; this one delivers 45.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,208 (now 1,325). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 87% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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