Enrollment
198
High
DISTRICT 1,024 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21·NCES 360015205940
LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC
2630 BENSON AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11214 · (718) 333-7750 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL198 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
161 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
60.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +30.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 30 points.
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
41.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
198
-104 (-34%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 14.4:1
% White
35%
was 16%
% Hispanic
44%
was 34%
% Black
8%
was 35%
% Asian
12%
was 11%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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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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
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- IS 228 DAVID A BOODYMiddle · 1,555 students
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- MARK TWAIN IS 239 FOR THE GIFTED AND TALENTEDMiddle · 1,295 students
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- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 383
- HIGH SCHOOL OF SPORTS MANAGEMENT0.0 mi · 385
- KINGSBOROUGH EARLY COLLEGE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 722
- INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAFAYETTE0.1 mi · 331
- PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY0.4 mi · 560
- IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO0.4 mi · 1,198
Frequently asked questions
About LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSICHow large is LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC?
LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC enrolls approximately 198 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC serve?
LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC is approximately 10.7:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC?
At LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC, the student body is approximately 35% White, 44% Hispanic, 8% Black, 12% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC public or private?
LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21.
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