JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS

JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS is an intermediate school of compact scale in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14, serveing 388 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 27% leaner than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 15,288 students. JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 22% Black, 11% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 43.7%; JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS posts 70.8%, +27.1 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-WILLIAMSBURG is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS. On composite proficiency, JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 34%: 289 students in 2018 compared to 388 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 75% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 today.

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