LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC

LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC is a secondary school of minimally staffed scale in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21, works with 198 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC sits 70% below that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 33,610 students; LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC is among them.

On demographics, LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC records that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 12% Asian, 8% Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 81% of students at LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC is one.

Nearest neighbor: LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 55.7%.

LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 34%: 302 students in 2018 compared to 198 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 35% to 8% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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