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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,325
High
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17·NCES 360009501937
CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL
901 CLASSON AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11225 · (718) 636-4900 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE ICAREER AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL1,325 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
13.1:1
101 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
1,098 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 442 | 33% |
| Grade 10 | 349 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 247 | 19% |
| Grade 12 | 249 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 38 | 3% |
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
72.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
33.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 44.0% |
% 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
45.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL
CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (45.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,325 | 82.9% | 45.7% |
| BENJAMIN BANNEKER ACADEMY BROOKLYN | 854 | 79.4% | 74.3% |
| EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II BROOKLYN | 662 | 83.1% | 70.3% |
| BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 628 | 79.1% | 27.2% |
| SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH EARLY COLLEGE BROOKLYN | 586 | 79.9% | 72.7% |
| CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 1,338 | 84.9% | 24.2% |
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 CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #810 of 1,135 | #62 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #839 of 1,109 ▼ 130 | #73 of 132 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #547 of 1,135 ▲ 293 | #34 of 137 ▲ 37 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,325 | #137 of 1,216 | #11 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #844 of 1,058 | #80 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.9% | #763 of 1,070 | #107 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.9% | #390 of 1,167 | #100 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.7% | #154 of 339 | #35 of 53 |
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
1,325
+5 (+0%) vs 2020
-24% since 2010-11, when it was 1,752
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 1,325 | 100.9 | 13.1:1 | 83% (1,098) |
| 2023-24 | 1,250 | 100.8 | 12.4:1 | 80% (995) |
| 2022-23 | 1,178 | 95 | 12.4:1 | 77% (902) |
| 2020-21 | 1,320 | 88 | 15.0:1 | 81% (1,070) |
| 2017-18 | 1,208 | 73 | 16.5:1 | 79% (953) |
| 2015-16 | 1,352 | 72 | 18.8:1 | 79% (1,063) |
| 2010-11 | 1,752 | 96 | 18.3:1 | 84% (1,471) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL.
About CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL
CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL is a high-enrollment high school located in BROOKLYN, New York. It teaches 1,325 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, high schools in New York enroll about 668 students on average.
Across its 49 schools, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 enrolls 16,990 students. CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL is one of those schools.
At CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL, 81% of students are Black. After that, the student body is 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% White. Census figures show Kings County is about 28% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL scores 33%.
There are about 13.1 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL, which has 100.9. High schools in New York average 11.0:1, 2.1 fewer students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL is about 83%.
CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 30% of New York public high schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL would score about 44.5%. It scores 45.7%, 1.1 points above that figure.
In Kings County, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Kings County counts 583 public schools with about 291,697 students.
PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale data from NCES put CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Enrollment at CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL was 1,320 in 2020-21 and 1,325 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The ratio was 15.0:1 in 2020-21 and 13.1:1 in 2024-25.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17
- MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLHigh · 1,267 students
- PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)Elementary · 887 students
- PS 249 CATON (THE)Elementary · 663 students
- PS 316 ELIJAH STROUDElementary · 644 students
- NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMYElementary · 588 students
- SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH EARLY COLLEGEHigh · 586 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
- PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON0.1 mi · 369
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT0.1 mi · 245
- INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS0.1 mi · 303
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP (THE)0.1 mi · 213
- BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR MUSIC & THEATER0.1 mi · 202
- EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 153
Frequently asked questions
About CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL?
CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,325 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL serve?
CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 10% Hispanic, 81% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL in?
CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.