DESIGN WORKS

DESIGN WORKS is a senior high of rural-scale scale in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, enrolling 163 students in grades 9 through 10. Enrollment runs roughly 76% below the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 19,151 students. DESIGN WORKS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, DESIGN WORKS shows that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 26% Hispanic, 16% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. 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 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, DESIGN WORKS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.8%, the actual is 57.3%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Around the school, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which DESIGN WORKS is one.

BRIDGES: A SCHOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND EQUITY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DESIGN WORKS at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 64.7%.

DESIGN WORKS operates from a metropolitan location.

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