FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL

Set in BROOKLYN, New York, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL is a sizable high school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20. It instructs 3,403 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 409% larger than the state mean of about 668.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, which oversees 48 schools and 44,136 students, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 37% Asian, 16% White, 6% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 253 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of +4.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Kings County put the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is PS 121 NELSON A ROCKEFELLER, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.7%.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 12%: 3,039 students in 2018 compared to 3,403 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 32% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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