IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO

Set in BROOKLYN, New York, IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO is a big junior high, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21. It works with 1,198 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 126% above the state mean of about 531.

Across the 40 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (33,610 students total), IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO shows that 40% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 28% Hispanic, 24% White, 7% Black. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 43.7%; IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO posts 66.9%, +23.2 points above that line.

In the broader community, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

HEBREW LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL 2 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.8%.

IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO has decreased 11%, going from 1,341 students in 2018 to 1,198 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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