EL PUENTE ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

As a very small high school in BROOKLYN, New York, EL PUENTE ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE serves 179 students from grades 9 through 12, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14. That puts it 73% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 15,288 students; EL PUENTE ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE is among them.

Demographically, EL PUENTE ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE reports that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 14% Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EL PUENTE ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EL PUENTE ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 41.9%; actual is 86.0%, +44.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), EL PUENTE ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: JUAN MOREL CAMPOS SECONDARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EL PUENTE ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EL PUENTE ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE has contracted 25%, going from 239 students in 2018 to 179 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment grew from 7% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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