SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE)

SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE) is a secondary school of very small scale in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, enrolling 139 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 79% leaner than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 16,990 students; SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE) is among them.

Demographically, SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE) records that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.5%; this one delivers 35.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE) is one campus in the mix.

BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE). On composite proficiency, SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE) comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 6-year window. SCHOOL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (THE)'s enrollment has ticked down 68% since 2018, when it stood at 439 (now 139). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 89% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 6.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.