RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 76 RIVERDALE AVE, in BROOKLYN, New York, RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a minimally staffed 6-8 campus that serves 98 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23. Enrollment runs roughly 82% below the state mean of about 531.

RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 28 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23, a district that works with 7,257 students overall.

In terms of who attends, RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 64%; the rest comes out to 29% Hispanic, 5% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 129 (now 98). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 17% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 6.7:1 in 2025.

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