OLYMPUS ACADEMY

OLYMPUS ACADEMY, a minimally staffed four-year high school in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, educates 181 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 73% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 11,062 students. OLYMPUS ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, OLYMPUS ACADEMY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, OLYMPUS ACADEMY has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 90% of students at OLYMPUS ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

After controlling for student poverty, OLYMPUS ACADEMY is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 42.1%; this one delivers 62.7%, a residual of +20.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), OLYMPUS ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LENOX ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OLYMPUS ACADEMY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. OLYMPUS ACADEMY's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 194 (now 181). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 6% to 11%.

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