KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL

Located at 5800 TILDEN AVE, in BROOKLYN, New York, KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is a micro-enrollment high school that serves 181 students (grades 9 through 12), part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL sits 73% leaner than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, which oversees 34 schools and 11,062 students, KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.5:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 40.5%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL has declined 48%, going from 351 students in 2018 to 181 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 90% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 today.

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