JHS 292 MARGARET S DOUGLAS

JHS 292 MARGARET S DOUGLAS is one of the cozy 6-8 campuss in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, with 267 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 50% below the state mean of about 531.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, which oversees 53 schools and 18,619 students, JHS 292 MARGARET S DOUGLAS is one campus in the system.

On demographics, JHS 292 MARGARET S DOUGLAS records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Black, 25% Asian. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 92% of students at JHS 292 MARGARET S DOUGLAS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

After controlling for student poverty, JHS 292 MARGARET S DOUGLAS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.6%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Kings County put the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 292 MARGARET S DOUGLAS is one.

The closest other public school is BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE BROOKLYN, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JHS 292 MARGARET S DOUGLAS at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 53%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 267 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 49% to 31%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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