Enrollment
160
Middle
DISTRICT 259 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19·NCES 360012006666
LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
590 SHEFFIELD AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11207 · (929) 397-2967 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL160 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of New York public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.0:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
154 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 32 | 20% |
| Grade 7 | 70 | 44% |
| Grade 8 | 58 | 36% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
34.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
22.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 22.8% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 27.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's state test result (28.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS this school | 160 | 96.3% | 28.5% |
| VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 161 | 95.0% | 28.6% |
| BROOKLYN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLORATION SCHOOL (BEES) BROOKLYN | 147 | 98.0% | 32.6% |
| EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 153 | 94.1% | 55.7% |
| ELIJAH STROUD MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 119 | 98.3% | 38.9% |
| MOTT HALL BRIDGES ACADEMY BROOKLYN | 200 | 98.5% | 19.6% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #733 of 766 | #87 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.8% | #744 of 768 ▼ 26 | #90 of 91 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #631 of 768 ▼ 83 | #84 of 91 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 160 | #737 of 796 | #81 of 102 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.3% | #49 of 773 | #9 of 92 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
160
+16 (+11%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
8.0:1
was 12.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 160 | 20 | 8.0:1 | 96% (154) |
| 2023-24 | 192 | 16.3 | 11.8:1 | 90% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 147 | 18.9 | 7.8:1 | 92% (135) |
| 2020-21 | 144 | 12 | 12.0:1 | 92% (133) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS.
About LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is a very small middle school with an address in BROOKLYN, New York. In all, 160 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 70% below the 531-student average for middle schools in New York.
LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of 53 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, which enrolls 18,619 students in total.
More than half of the students at LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS are Black (66%). The rest of enrollment is 25% Hispanic, 3% White, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the Black share of Kings County's population at about 28%. The diversity index for LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is 50%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 20 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 8.0:1. Middle schools in New York average 10.3:1, 2.3 more students per teacher than here. LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 96%. Public schools in Kings County average 79%.
LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 8% of New York public middle schools.
LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 28.5% is 11.1 points below the 39.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
American Community Survey estimates for Kings County show that median household income comes to about $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. The county's public schools total 583, with about 291,697 students.
The closest school to LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is PS 190 SHEFFIELD, located less than a tenth of a mile away. LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's average proficiency of 28.5% compares with 42.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Federal data place LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 160, from 144 in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio falling from 12.0:1 to 8.0:1.
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Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19
- TRANSIT TECH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 795 students
- PS 214 MICHAEL FRIEDSAMElementary · 728 students
- PS 159 ISAAC PITKINElementary · 661 students
- PS 108 SAL ABBRACCIAMENTOElementary · 649 students
- EAST NEW YORK FAMILY ACADEMYHigh · 610 students
- PS 7 ABRAHAM LINCOLNElementary · 589 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- PS 190 SHEFFIELD0.0 mi · 104
- ACHIEVEMENT FIRST EAST NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,072
- PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE0.1 mi · 331
- SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE BROOKLYN0.3 mi · 119
- BROOKLYN GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 355
- PS 213 NEW LOTS0.3 mi · 199
Frequently asked questions
About LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHow many students attend LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS enrolls approximately 160 students in grades 06-08.
Is LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS an elementary, middle, or high school?
LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is approximately 8.0:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
Student demographics at LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS are roughly 3% White, 25% Hispanic, 66% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS in?
LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19.
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