MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY

MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY is a very small middle school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. The school educates 156 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY sits 71% smaller than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, which oversees 34 schools and 11,062 students, MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY logs that nearly all students (80%) are Black. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.0%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of +2.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY has declined 13%, going from 180 students in 2018 to 156 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 86% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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