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GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL
Located at 105 TECH PL, in BROOKLYN, New York, GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL is a compact four-year high school that instructs 557 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13.
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL is one of 42 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, a district that serves 19,151 students overall.
Demographically, GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL shows that 57% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 33% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 45.5%, a residual of +3.3 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: CITY POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.5%.
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 26%, going from 748 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 70% to 57% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.
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