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Enrollment
1,435
Middle
DISTRICT 1,125 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21·NCES 360015203011
IS 98 BAY ACADEMY
1401 EMMONS AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11235 · (718) 891-9005 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,435 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of New York public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
902 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 493 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 488 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 452 | 31% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
89.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
94.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 95 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.0% | 94.5% |
| 2023-24 | 85.0% | 95.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
91.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+40.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 40 points, placing it in New York's top 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 IS 98 BAY ACADEMY
IS 98 BAY ACADEMY's state test result (91.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IS 98 BAY ACADEMY this school | 1,435 | 62.9% | 91.9% |
| IS 72 ROCCO LAURIE STATEN ISLAND | 1,532 | 70.0% | 58.8% |
| JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEY REGO PARK | 1,611 | 52.2% | 73.7% |
| MARK TWAIN IS 239 FOR THE GIFTED AND TALENTED BROOKLYN | 1,295 | 45.9% | 91.6% |
| IS 24 MYRA S BARNES STATEN ISLAND | 1,314 | 54.9% | 72.9% |
| IS 75 FRANK D PAULO STATEN ISLAND | 1,514 | 50.0% | 79.6% |
Matched among New York middle 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 IS 98 BAY ACADEMY ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 91.9% | #2 of 766 | #1 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.5% | #86 of 768 ▼ 13 | #6 of 91 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #9 of 768 ▲ 6 | #4 of 91 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,435 | #19 of 796 | #5 of 102 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #682 of 683 | #67 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.3% | #171 of 688 | #27 of 68 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.9% | #331 of 773 | #82 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.3% | #396 of 524 | #45 of 56 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,435
-232 (-14%) vs 2020
+18% since 2010-11, when it was 1,212
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 24.2:1
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 | 1,435 | 71.5 | 20.1:1 | 63% (902) |
| 2023-24 | 1,430 | 72.7 | 19.7:1 | 63% (903) |
| 2022-23 | 1,488 | 75.9 | 19.6:1 | 63% (942) |
| 2020-21 | 1,667 | 69 | 24.2:1 | 57% (945) |
| 2017-18 | 1,532 | 70 | 21.9:1 | 55% (843) |
| 2015-16 | 1,494 | 69 | 21.6:1 | 58% (865) |
| 2010-11 | 1,212 | 56 | 21.6:1 | 54% (653) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IS 98 BAY ACADEMY.
About IS 98 BAY ACADEMY
Families in BROOKLYN, New York, are served by IS 98 BAY ACADEMY, a large middle school. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,435 students. That is 170% above the average of about 531 students for middle schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 has 40 schools and 33,610 students, and IS 98 BAY ACADEMY is one of those schools.
At IS 98 BAY ACADEMY, 50% of students are White. Other students are 36% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, and 2% multiracial. That is higher than the 38% White share among all Kings County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 61%.
Staffing at IS 98 BAY ACADEMY comes to 71.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.1:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in New York is 10.3:1. IS 98 BAY ACADEMY counts 63% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 79% average among public schools in Kings County.
IS 98 BAY ACADEMY holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 99% of New York public middle schools.
IS 98 BAY ACADEMY ranks in the top 10% of New York schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 91.9%. Predicted: 51.9%. Difference: 40.0 points.
For Kings County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting IS 98 BAY ACADEMY, Kings County has 583 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, PS 771 is about 0.3 miles from IS 98 BAY ACADEMY. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, IS 98 BAY ACADEMY is ahead of the 59.0% nearby average, ranking 1st of 8.
NCES assigns IS 98 BAY ACADEMY the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased 14% over 4 years, reaching 1,435 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 24.2:1 to 20.1:1.
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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 #21
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,210 students
- JOHN DEWEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,209 students
- IS 228 DAVID A BOODYMiddle · 1,555 students
- MARK TWAIN IS 239 FOR THE GIFTED AND TALENTEDMiddle · 1,295 students
- IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLAROMiddle · 1,198 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
- PS 7710.3 mi · 539
- PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE)0.3 mi · 1,049
- PS 209 MARGARET MEAD0.5 mi · 702
- PS 2530.5 mi · 955
- WILLIAM E GRADY CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 646
- PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD0.5 mi · 719
Frequently asked questions
About IS 98 BAY ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at IS 98 BAY ACADEMY?
IS 98 BAY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 1,435 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does IS 98 BAY ACADEMY serve?
IS 98 BAY ACADEMY serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at IS 98 BAY ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at IS 98 BAY ACADEMY is approximately 20.1:1 (72 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at IS 98 BAY ACADEMY?
Student demographics at IS 98 BAY ACADEMY are roughly 50% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 36% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is IS 98 BAY ACADEMY in?
IS 98 BAY ACADEMY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.