FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL

FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL, a tight-knit junior high in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, caters to 303 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 43% below the state mean of about 531.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 18,619 students; FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 3% Native American, 2% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 98% of students at FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is PS 346 ABE STARK, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 10%, going from 338 students in 2018 to 303 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 5% to 1% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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