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Enrollment
413
High
DISTRICT 381 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19·NCES 360012006031
CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
999 JAMAICA AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11208 · (718) 647-1672 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% 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
11.8:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
373 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 | 104 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 112 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 102 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 95 | 23% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
57.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -11.0pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp 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 32 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 22.0% |
% 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
45.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL's state test result (45.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL this school | 413 | 90.3% | 45.3% |
| MARBLE HILL HIGH SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES BRONX | 393 | 93.1% | 65.7% |
| DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 377 | 91.5% | 55.0% |
| BUSHWICK LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE BROOKLYN | 358 | 91.6% | 23.2% |
| INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT UNION SQUARE NEW YORK | 348 | 87.4% | 39.3% |
| BRONX COLLABORATIVE HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 423 | 91.3% | 60.5% |
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 CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #821 of 1,135 | #65 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #853 of 1,109 ▲ 125 | #78 of 132 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #833 of 1,135 ▼ 153 | #70 of 137 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #680 of 1,216 | #65 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #675 of 1,058 | #67 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.4% | #748 of 1,070 | #103 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.3% | #211 of 1,167 | #48 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +67.9% | #10 of 339 | #5 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
413
+38 (+10%) vs 2020
-5% since 2010-11, when it was 433
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 413 | 34.9 | 11.8:1 | 90% (373) |
| 2023-24 | 409 | 36.6 | 11.2:1 | 89% (365) |
| 2022-23 | 404 | 37 | 10.9:1 | 91% (366) |
| 2020-21 | 375 | 26 | 14.4:1 | 93% (348) |
| 2017-18 | 246 | 13.7 | 18.0:1 | 85% (210) |
| 2015-16 | 239 | 22 | 10.9:1 | 82% (197) |
| 2010-11 | 433 | 24 | 18.0:1 | 72% (313) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
About CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL is a high school with a street address in BROOKLYN, New York. School enrollment was 413 students in 2024-25, in grades 9 through 12. For comparison, high schools in New York average about 668 students.
CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL is part of a district of 53 schools: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, with 18,619 students.
CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL's enrollment is 80% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 12% Black and 5% Asian. In Kings County overall, about 19% of residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 34%.
The school reports 34.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 11.8 students per teacher. The 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 90%. Among public schools in Kings County, the average eligibility rate is 79%.
allk12 grades CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL a C. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 45.3% actual against 41.8% predicted.
CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL is located in Kings County, where median household income is about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 583 public schools in Kings County, with a combined enrollment of about 291,697.
The shortest distance from CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL went from 375 students to 413. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.4:1 in 2020-21 to 11.8:1 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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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- BROOKLYN LAB SCHOOL0.0 mi · 459
- ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY0.0 mi · 390
- URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE HEALTHCARE (THE)0.0 mi · 377
- MULTICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 282
- PS 7 ABRAHAM LINCOLN0.3 mi · 589
- IS 171 ABRAHAM LINCOLN0.5 mi · 276
Frequently asked questions
About CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOLHow many students attend CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL?
CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 413 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL serve?
CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL is approximately 11.8:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL are roughly 1% White, 80% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL?
CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 in Kings County.
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