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Enrollment
513
High
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17·NCES 360009505714
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS
911 FLATBUSH AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11226 · (718) 564-2470 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL513 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of New York public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
433 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 128 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 143 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 113 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 128 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +27.0pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 27 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 33.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS's state test result (41.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS this school | 513 | 84.4% | 41.2% |
| DEMOCRACY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 583 | 83.5% | 53.4% |
| UNITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN BROOKLYN | 513 | 82.5% | 49.9% |
| ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM BROOKLYN | 402 | 83.8% | 52.0% |
| ACAD-SCHOLARSHIP & ENTREPRENEURSHIP BRONX | 437 | 89.7% | 41.3% |
| HEALTH ARTS ROBOTICS AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL CAMBRIA HEIGHTS | 626 | 86.1% | 65.0% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #917 of 1,135 | #80 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #749 of 1,109 ▲ 98 | #56 of 132 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #686 of 1,135 ▲ 412 | #50 of 137 ▲ 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 513 | #526 of 1,216 | #40 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #1,041 of 1,058 | #112 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.3% | #484 of 1,070 | #66 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.4% | #359 of 1,167 | #90 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.5% | #177 of 339 | #41 of 53 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
513
+57 (+13%) vs 2020
+29% since 2010-11, when it was 399
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 16.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 513 | 28.9 | 17.8:1 | 84% (433) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 27.5 | 17.7:1 | 83% (406) |
| 2022-23 | 463 | 28.6 | 16.2:1 | 85% (394) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 28 | 16.3:1 | 81% (371) |
| 2017-18 | 477 | 21 | 22.7:1 | 84% (399) |
| 2015-16 | 383 | 20 | 19.1:1 | 85% (324) |
| 2010-11 | 399 | 20 | 19.9:1 | 66% (264) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS.
About HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS is a high school located in BROOKLYN, New York, in Kings County. Enrolled students number 513 students, in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 23% lower than the average for high schools in New York, which is about 668.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 is the district for HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS. It has 49 schools and 16,990 students.
Black students make up a majority at HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS, at 65%. Other students are 27% Hispanic, 3% White, and 2% Asian. That is higher than the 28% Black share among all Kings County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 50% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS employs 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 17.8:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 84%.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 20% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS is 2.8 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Kings County show that the median household income is $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Besides HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS, Kings County has 582 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM is the closest, at less than a tenth of a mile. HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS ranks 6th on proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS is City: Large.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS's enrollment grew from 456 in 2020-21 to 513 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 17.8:1.
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Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17
- CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,325 students
- MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLHigh · 1,267 students
- PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)Elementary · 887 students
- PS 249 CATON (THE)Elementary · 663 students
- PS 316 ELIJAH STROUDElementary · 644 students
- NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMYElementary · 588 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM0.0 mi · 402
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR SERVICE AND LEARNING AT ERASMUS0.0 mi · 249
- ACAD FOR COLLEGE PREP AND CAREER EXP0.0 mi · 441
- SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH EARLY COLLEGE0.0 mi · 586
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLATBUSH0.1 mi · 598
- NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY0.1 mi · 588
Frequently asked questions
About HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUSWhat is the total enrollment at HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS?
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS enrolls approximately 513 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS serve?
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS?
Approximately 17.8:1 students per teacher at HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS.
How diverse is HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS?
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS reports a student body of 3% White, 27% Hispanic, 65% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS?
HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 in Kings County.
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