SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) is a compact junior high in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. The school instructs 229 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 57% leaner than the state mean of about 531.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 11,062 students; SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) is among them.

On the student-mix side, SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%). The remainder is composed of 9% Hispanic, 4% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.3%; this one delivers 49.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household income runs about $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%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) is one.

The closest other public school is PS 279 HERMAN SCHREIBER, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE). On composite proficiency, SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.4%.

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)'s enrollment has shrank 42% since 2018, when it stood at 394 (now 229). Black enrollment moved from 89% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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