LENOX ACADEMY

Set in BROOKLYN, New York, LENOX ACADEMY is a compact junior high, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. It serves 264 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so LENOX ACADEMY sits 50% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 34 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 (11,062 students total), LENOX ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, LENOX ACADEMY shows that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting LENOX ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LENOX ACADEMY 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 46.9%; LENOX ACADEMY posts 76.0%, +29.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Kings County) records that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), LENOX ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

OLYMPUS ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LENOX ACADEMY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 53.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

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