JHS 88 PETER ROUGET

JHS 88 PETER ROUGET is one of the sprawling middle schools in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15, with 843 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so JHS 88 PETER ROUGET sits 59% bigger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 25,925 students; JHS 88 PETER ROUGET is among them.

Demographically, JHS 88 PETER ROUGET shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 23% White, 17% Black, 9% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, JHS 88 PETER ROUGET lists 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 64% of students at JHS 88 PETER ROUGET qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

After controlling for student poverty, JHS 88 PETER ROUGET tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs that median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), JHS 88 PETER ROUGET is one campus in the mix.

NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JHS 88 PETER ROUGET comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 79.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JHS 88 PETER ROUGET has decreased 38%, going from 1,355 students in 2018 to 843 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 12% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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