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Enrollment
1,518
Middle
DISTRICT 985 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20·NCES 360015102682
MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)
8010 12TH AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11228 · (718) 833-9363 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,518 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of New York public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
15.1:1
101 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
1,179 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 444 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 564 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 508 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
80.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
86.9%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.0% | 86.9% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 84.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
82.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+36.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 36 points, placing it in New York's top 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 MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)
MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (82.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) this school | 1,518 | 77.7% | 82.8% |
| JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER FLUSHING | 1,516 | 77.2% | 73.4% |
| JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY BROOKLYN | 1,780 | 82.4% | 78.7% |
| JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN FLUSHING | 1,516 | 71.6% | 80.3% |
| IS 25 ADRIEN BLOCK FLUSHING | 1,023 | 70.5% | 72.4% |
| JHS 220 JOHN J PERSHING BROOKLYN | 1,257 | 89.8% | 74.5% |
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 MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.8% | #34 of 766 | #6 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.9% | #132 of 768 ▲ 15 | #10 of 91 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #42 of 768 ▲ 9 | #6 of 91 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,518 | #11 of 796 | #3 of 102 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #666 of 683 | #65 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.3% | #257 of 688 | #33 of 68 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.7% | #246 of 773 | #71 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.2% | #443 of 524 | #48 of 56 |
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
1,518
-203 (-12%) vs 2020
+2% since 2010-11, when it was 1,495
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 17.7:1
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 | 1,518 | 100.6 | 15.1:1 | 78% (1,179) |
| 2023-24 | 1,591 | 99.1 | 16.1:1 | 78% (1,247) |
| 2022-23 | 1,554 | 99.5 | 15.6:1 | 76% (1,186) |
| 2020-21 | 1,721 | 97 | 17.7:1 | 77% (1,333) |
| 2017-18 | 1,584 | 87 | 18.2:1 | 75% (1,195) |
| 2015-16 | 1,470 | 80 | 18.4:1 | 73% (1,067) |
| 2010-11 | 1,495 | 80 | 18.7:1 | 79% (1,177) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE).
About MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)
MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) is a large middle school in BROOKLYN, New York, (ZIP code 11228). It enrolled 1,518 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 186% higher than the average for middle schools in New York, which is about 531.
The NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 system has 48 schools and 44,136 students.
A majority of students at MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE), 62%, are Asian. Next come 19% Hispanic and 18% White. The county population is about 12% Asian. MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) has a diversity index of 55%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.1:1, with 100.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among middle schools in New York, the typical ratio is 10.3:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) is 78%. That is close to the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
allk12 grades MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) an A+. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) beats its 46.4% prediction with 82.8%, a top-10% result in New York.
Kings County has about 2,631,580 residents, and median household income is about $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 583 public schools in Kings County, with a combined enrollment of about 291,697.
SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS AND RESEARCH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Federal data place MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 12%, from 1,721 to 1,518. The number of students per teacher fell from 17.7 to 15.1 over 4 years.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 #20
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
- NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,236 students
- JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEYMiddle · 1,780 students
- JHS 227 EDWARD B SHALLOWMiddle · 1,327 students
- JHS 220 JOHN J PERSHINGMiddle · 1,257 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
- SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS AND RESEARCH0.5 mi · 112
- PS 127 MCKINLEY PARK0.5 mi · 667
- PS 204 VINCE LOMBARDI0.5 mi · 994
- JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY0.5 mi · 1,780
- PS 229 DYKER0.6 mi · 1,115
- PS 176 OVINGTON0.6 mi · 1,037
Frequently asked questions
About MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)What is the total enrollment at MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)?
MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 1,518 students in grades 06-08.
Is MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE).
How diverse is MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)?
MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) reports a student body of 18% White, 19% Hispanic, 1% Black, 62% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)?
MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.