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JHS 14 SHELL BANK
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JHS 14 SHELL BANK
JHS 14 SHELL BANK operates as a moderately sized middle school in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22. Current enrollment sits at 469 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, which oversees 40 schools and 30,207 students, JHS 14 SHELL BANK is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, JHS 14 SHELL BANK logs that 34% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Black, 22% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 2% Pacific Islander. Compared to Kings County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Kings County's rate of about 79%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JHS 14 SHELL BANK performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.3%, the actual is 49.7%, a residual of +8.5 points.
Around the school, Kings County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which JHS 14 SHELL BANK is one.
Nearest neighbor: UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED MATH AND SCIENCE III, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JHS 14 SHELL BANK ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.6%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JHS 14 SHELL BANK has ticked down 10%, going from 522 students in 2018 to 469 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 39% to 26%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.
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