Enrollment
229
Middle
DISTRICT 270 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18·NCES 360009606155
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)
965 E 107TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11236 · (718) 688-6400 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL229 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
210 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 77 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 69 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 81 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 1% |
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
50.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 50.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (49.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) this school | 229 | 91.7% | 49.6% |
| MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL BROOKLYN | 286 | 89.2% | 46.3% |
| MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR BROOKLYN | 175 | 92.0% | 66.2% |
| SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED LEARNING (THE) BROOKLYN | 214 | 93.5% | 67.1% |
| PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY BROOKLYN | 248 | 93.5% | 43.6% |
| MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY BROOKLYN | 156 | 89.7% | 44.1% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #440 of 766 | #47 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #599 of 768 ▼ 128 | #62 of 91 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #335 of 768 ▼ 27 | #49 of 91 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 229 | #666 of 796 | #61 of 102 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.0:1 | #116 of 683 | #11 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.9% | #538 of 688 | #59 of 68 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.7% | #125 of 773 | #29 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.9% | #40 of 524 | #11 of 56 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
229
-157 (-41%) vs 2020
+12% since 2010-11, when it was 205
Student : Teacher
9.0:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 229 | 25.6 | 9.0:1 | 92% (210) |
| 2023-24 | 244 | 27.3 | 8.9:1 | 91% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 282 | 28 | 10.1:1 | 88% (247) |
| 2020-21 | 386 | 33 | 11.7:1 | 84% (323) |
| 2017-18 | 394 | 30 | 13.1:1 | 82% (325) |
| 2015-16 | 500 | 38 | 13.2:1 | 71% (357) |
| 2010-11 | 205 | 19 | 10.8:1 | 90% (185) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE).
About SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE), a small middle school, is located in BROOKLYN, New York. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 229 students. The typical figure for middle schools in New York is about 531 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 counts 11,062 students in its 34 schools, and SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) is one of them.
Most students at SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) are Black: 83% of enrollment. Smaller groups are 9% Hispanic, 4% White, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Kings County is roughly 28% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 31%.
Teacher staffing is 25.6 full-time equivalents, or about 9.0 students per teacher. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 92%. On average, public schools in Kings County report 79%.
Measured against New York public middle schools, SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)'s average proficiency rate on state tests of 49.6% is 8.3 points above the 41.3% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Kings County has about 2,631,580 residents, and median household income is about $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Federal data list 583 public schools in Kings County, with a combined enrollment of about 291,697.
Nearest public school: UNCOMMON CANARSIE CHARTER SCHOOL NYC, about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 61.4%; SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)'s is 49.6%, ranking 8th of 9.
The federal government classifies SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)'s location as City: Large.
Enrollment was 386 in 2020-21 and 229 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. The number of students per teacher fell from 11.7 to 9.0 over 4 years.
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Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
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- PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOLElementary · 854 students
- PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOLElementary · 666 students
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- PS 66Elementary · 527 students
- IS 285 MEYER LEVINMiddle · 512 students
- ACADEMY FOR CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENTHigh · 432 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- UNCOMMON CANARSIE CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.2 mi · 808
- PS 279 HERMAN SCHREIBER0.2 mi · 276
- LENOX ACADEMY0.4 mi · 264
- OLYMPUS ACADEMY0.4 mi · 181
- IS 211 JOHN WILSON0.4 mi · 188
- FRESH CREEK SCHOOL (THE)0.5 mi · 190
Frequently asked questions
About SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)How large is SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)?
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 229 students in grades 06-08.
Is SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)?
Approximately 9.0:1 students per teacher at SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE).
What is the student diversity at SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)?
Student demographics at SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) are roughly 4% White, 9% Hispanic, 83% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) in?
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18.
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