IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY

IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY, an one-room-style high school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, hosts 262 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY sits 61% smaller than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, which oversees 34 schools and 11,062 students, IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

Demographically, IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY logs that Black students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.2%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows 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%. IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

Nearest neighbor: CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.6%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY has shrank 63%, going from 711 students in 2018 to 262 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 87% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.