EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL

EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is a minimally staffed high school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. The school educates 164 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL sits 75% below that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, which oversees 34 schools and 11,062 students, EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 78%. Other groups include 21% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.4:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.6%; this one delivers 37.2%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kings County) records that median household earnings sit near $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is one.

LAMAD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 186 (now 164). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 15% to 21%.

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