DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS operates as a rural-scale 9-12 campus in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13. Current enrollment sits at 132 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 80% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, which oversees 42 schools and 19,151 students, DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 26% 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 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 27.5%, a residual of -13.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Kings County put 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 DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 67 CHARLES A DORSEY, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 40.8%.

DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DR SUSAN S MCKINNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS has fell 64%, going from 370 students in 2018 to 132 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 5.6:1 today.

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