FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS

Set in BROOKLYN, New York, FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS is a modestly sized 9-12 campus, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19. It educates 417 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS sits 38% below that benchmark.

FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS is one of 53 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, a district that works with 18,619 students overall.

On demographics, FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS records that the largest single group is Black at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

After controlling for student poverty, FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 24.3%, a residual of -17.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, 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. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS is one.

PERFORMING ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS's enrollment has climbed 26% since 2018, when it stood at 332 (now 417). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 73% to 53%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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