ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL

ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL is a 9-12 campus of close-knit scale in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, serveing 479 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 28% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, which oversees 40 schools and 30,207 students, ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% Black, 18% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Kings County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 91% of students at ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Kings County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kings County) reports that median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.4%.

ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL has expanded 12%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 37% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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