DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES

DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES operates as an intimate middle-grades school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13. Current enrollment sits at 220 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES sits 59% smaller than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 19,151 students. DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES is one of those campuses.

Demographically, DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES logs that 63% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Hispanic, 8% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.5%.

In the area at large, 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 roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

EMILY WARREN ROEBLING SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 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 DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 10%: 200 students in 2018 compared to 220 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 68% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 in 2025.

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