FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY

FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY is an intermediate school of intimate scale in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, instructing 228 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits 57% leaner than that benchmark.

FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 42 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, a district that teaches 19,151 students overall.

Looking at the student body, FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 25% Hispanic, 21% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.3%; this one delivers 46.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

PS 46 EDWARD C BLUM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY's enrollment has climbed 14% since 2018, when it stood at 200 (now 228). Black enrollment moved from 62% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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