NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL

NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL, a cozy middle school in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, instructs 226 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 57% leaner than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 16,990 students; NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder is composed of 23% Hispanic, 5% Native American. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

With demographic context factored in, NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.6%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household income runs about $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ACHIEVEMENT FIRST CROWN HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 237 (now 226). Black enrollment moved from 84% to 68% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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