LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 2630 BENSON AVE, in BROOKLYN, New York, LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL is a tight-knit secondary school that educates 383 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 33,610 students; LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 23% White, 17% Asian, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL 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%; LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL posts 80.5%, +36.8 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate 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 LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is HIGH SCHOOL OF SPORTS MANAGEMENT, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 50.1%.

LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL has expanded 13%, going from 340 students in 2018 to 383 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 34% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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