PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL

PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL operates as a minimally staffed four-year high school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22. Current enrollment sits at 180 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 73% below typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 30,207 students. PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL lists that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 26% Black, 22% White, 9% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

After controlling for student poverty, PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SHEEPSHEAD BAY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 197 students in 2018 compared to 180 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 32% to 43% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 in 2025.

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