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Enrollment
3,983
High
DISTRICT 1,648 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22·NCES 360015302009
JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL
3787 BEDFORD AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11229 · (718) 758-7200 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL3,983 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% of New York public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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 high schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
244 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
2,955 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 1,112 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 1,161 | 29% |
| Grade 11 | 904 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 804 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
78.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 52.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL
JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (60.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL this school | 3,983 | 74.2% | 60.2% |
| NEW DORP HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 3,055 | 68.0% | 54.2% |
| EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 3,503 | 68.2% | 53.8% |
| SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 2,743 | 69.4% | 57.2% |
| TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 3,750 | 58.1% | 64.5% |
| FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOL FOREST HILLS | 3,394 | 72.6% | 57.3% |
Matched among New York high 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 JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.2% | #543 of 1,135 | #22 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #542 of 1,109 ▲ 64 | #25 of 132 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #458 of 1,135 ▼ 28 | #26 of 137 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 3,983 | #5 of 1,216 | #3 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #1,031 of 1,058 | #109 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #175 of 1,070 | #27 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.2% | #498 of 1,167 | #131 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.0% | #160 of 339 | #38 of 53 |
Ranked against other public high 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
3,983
+147 (+4%) vs 2020
+26% since 2010-11, when it was 3,155
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 3,983 | 244.2 | 16.3:1 | 74% (2,955) |
| 2023-24 | 3,766 | 221.7 | 17.0:1 | 73% (2,742) |
| 2022-23 | 3,630 | 211.6 | 17.2:1 | 73% (2,634) |
| 2020-21 | 3,836 | 214 | 17.9:1 | 77% (2,949) |
| 2017-18 | 3,655 | 192.4 | 19.0:1 | 77% (2,809) |
| 2015-16 | 3,261 | 147 | 22.2:1 | 76% (2,475) |
| 2010-11 | 3,155 | 140 | 22.5:1 | 66% (2,095) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL.
About JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL
JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school found in BROOKLYN, New York. Total enrollment is 3,983 students, and the grades served are 9 through 12. By comparison, high schools in New York enroll about 668 students on average.
JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL is one school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, a system of 40 schools with 30,207 students.
White students are 53% of those enrolled at JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL. Beyond that, enrollment is 20% Asian, 16% Hispanic, and 10% Black. In Kings County overall, about 38% of residents are White. A diversity index of 65% means there is a 65% chance two randomly chosen students at JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school's 244.2 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1. High schools in New York have an average ratio of 11.0:1. At JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL, 74% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 60% of New York public high schools.
JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (60.2%) and its predicted rate (47.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
Looking at the county, Kings County, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Counting JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL, Kings County has 583 public schools.
PS 197 KINGS HIGHWAY ACADEMY (THE), about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL is 4th on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
Enrollment rose 4% over 4 years, reaching 3,983 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.9:1 to 16.3:1 over the same years.
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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 #22
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMBElementary · 1,508 students
- JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAMMiddle · 1,447 students
- PS 197 KINGS HIGHWAY ACADEMY (THE)Elementary · 1,074 students
- LEON M GOLDSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCESHigh · 952 students
- PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARYElementary · 918 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
- NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,236 students
Other James Madison High schools
One other US public school is named James Madison High. JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- James Madison High SchoolDALLAS, TX · 349 students
Nearby schools
- PS 197 KINGS HIGHWAY ACADEMY (THE)0.3 mi · 1,074
- JHS 278 MARINE PARK0.5 mi · 841
- PS 222 KATHERINE R SNYDER0.5 mi · 706
- JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAM0.5 mi · 1,447
- PS 255 BARBARA REING SCHOOL0.6 mi · 800
- PS 193 GIL HODGES0.8 mi · 487
Frequently asked questions
About JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL?
JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 3,983 students in grades 09-12.
Is JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL?
At JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 53% White, 16% Hispanic, 10% Black, 20% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL in?
JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22.
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