CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES operates as a modestly sized four-year high school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. Current enrollment sits at 296 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 56% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 11,062 students. CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). Beyond that, the school records 13% Hispanic. 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, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES is one.

The closest other public school is KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 321 (now 296). The Black share of enrollment declined from 87% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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