INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS

As a compact four-year high school in BROOKLYN, New York, INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS instructs 303 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17. Enrollment runs roughly 55% below the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 16,990 students. INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment; the rest looks like 20% Black, 15% multiracial, 5% White, 4% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 33.8%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS is one campus in the mix.

BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR MUSIC & THEATER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS has declined 24%, going from 398 students in 2018 to 303 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 14% to 4%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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