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What's something NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
546
Middle
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15·NCES 360009205501
NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS
330 18TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11215 · (718) 965-0390 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL546 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
14.6:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
221 students
DISTRICT 61% · 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 | 192 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 171 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 183 | 34% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
85.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
88.1%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.0% | 88.1% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 89.1% |
% 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
85.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% 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 25 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 NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS
NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS's state test result (85.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS this school | 546 | 40.5% | 85.6% |
| ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL ISLIP | 601 | 44.4% | 44.6% |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL CORTLANDT MANOR | 534 | 36.3% | 59.5% |
| EXPLORATORY SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 518 | 44.0% | 76.0% |
| A MACARTHUR BARR MIDDLE SCHOOL NANUET | 635 | 35.0% | 62.7% |
| MS 442 CARROLL GARDENS SCHOOL FOR INNOVATION BROOKLYN | 338 | 42.9% | 80.4% |
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 NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.6% | #22 of 766 | #5 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.1% | #123 of 768 ▼ 7 | #9 of 91 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #17 of 768 ▲ 12 | #5 of 91 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #325 of 796 | #20 of 102 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #658 of 683 | #61 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #97 of 688 | #21 of 68 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.5% | #524 of 773 | #91 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.0% | #447 of 524 | #50 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
546
-26 (-5%) vs 2020
+12% since 2010-11, when it was 486
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 546 | 37.5 | 14.6:1 | 40% (221) |
| 2023-24 | 517 | 36.9 | 14.0:1 | 48% (248) |
| 2022-23 | 530 | 36.5 | 14.5:1 | 47% (251) |
| 2020-21 | 572 | 34 | 16.8:1 | 46% (265) |
| 2017-18 | 569 | 35 | 16.3:1 | 31% (174) |
| 2015-16 | 541 | 34 | 15.9:1 | 33% (181) |
| 2010-11 | 486 | 34 | 14.3:1 | 53% (257) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS.
About NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS
NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS is a medium-sized middle school based in BROOKLYN, New York. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 546 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 operates 51 schools. Combined enrollment is 25,925 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS. The largest is White students, at 44%. Other students are 34% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 6% Black. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teacher staffing is 37.5 full-time equivalents, or about 14.6 students per teacher. On average, middle schools in New York have 10.3:1, compared with 14.6:1 here. About 40% of students, or 221, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Kings County average 79%.
allk12 grades NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS an A+. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS scores 25.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 85.6% actual versus 60.1% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Kings County has these Census figures: the median household income is $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. In all, Kings County has 583 public schools and roughly 291,697 students.
The next-closest public school is PS 295, less than a tenth of a mile away. NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS ranks 1st of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 85.6% against a local average of 74.9%.
NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 26 fewer students in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 14.6 students per teacher, compared with 16.8 in 2020-21.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15
- SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,348 students
- PS 321 WILLIAM PENNElementary · 1,305 students
- MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDERMiddle · 1,038 students
- PS 230 DORIS L COHENElementary · 925 students
- PS 130 PARKSIDE (THE)Elementary · 891 students
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 890 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
- PS 2950.0 mi · 209
- JHS 88 PETER ROUGET0.0 mi · 843
- PS 530.0 mi · 406
- MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY0.1 mi · 836
- HELLENIC CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL PARK SLOPE0.3 mi · 493
- PS 107 JOHN W KIMBALL0.4 mi · 537
Frequently asked questions
About NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTSWhat is the total enrollment at NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS?
NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS enrolls approximately 546 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS serve?
NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS.
How diverse is NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS?
NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS reports a student body of 44% White, 34% Hispanic, 6% Black, 9% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS public or private?
NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.