HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS

HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS operates as a close-knit four-year high school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17. Current enrollment sits at 513 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS is one of 49 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, a district that serves 16,990 students overall.

On the student-mix side, HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS logs that Black students make up the majority at 65%; the rest looks like 27% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 41.2%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH EARLY COLLEGE, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS has expanded 8%, going from 477 students in 2018 to 513 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 78% to 65% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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