LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of the minimally staffed middle-grades schools in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, with 160 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 70% leaner than the state mean of about 531.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 18,619 students. LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS reports that 66% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 25% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS logs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 28.5%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household income runs about $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 190 SHEFFIELD, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.6%.

LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS operates from a high-density location.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.