MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 1014 LAFAYETTE AVE, in BROOKLYN, New York, MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL is a rural-scale intermediate school that works with 176 students (grades 6 through 8), part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16. Enrollment runs roughly 67% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 23 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16, a district that serves 5,175 students overall.

Demographically, MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 45% Hispanic, 2% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 4.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 26 JESSE OWENS, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL has increased 13%, going from 156 students in 2018 to 176 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 74% to 49%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 4.8:1 in 2025.

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