JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW

As a close-knit senior high in BROOKLYN, New York, JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW instructs 450 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 25,925 students. JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW is one of those campuses.

Demographically, JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW records that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 38% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. 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.

After controlling for student poverty, JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 52.8%, a residual of +9.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kings County) reports 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%. JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is CYBERARTS STUDIO ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 74.2%.

JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW has held roughly steady, going from 451 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 67% to 46% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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