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Enrollment
453
High
DISTRICT 678 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13·NCES 360009100867
SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL
49 FLATBUSH AVE EXT, BROOKLYN, NY 11201 · (718) 243-9413 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL453 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of New York public high schools
- B+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 high schools
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
405 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 99 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 127 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 128 | 28% |
| Grade 12 | 99 | 22% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -9.0pp since 2023
Math
63.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 74.0% | 60.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+30.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in New York's top 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 SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL
SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (72.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL this school | 453 | 89.4% | 72.3% |
| ROCHESTER EARLY COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 458 | 87.6% | 28.7% |
| BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY BROOKLYN | 469 | 90.4% | 43.3% |
| LEWIS J BENNETT HIGH SCHOOL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLGY BUFFALO | 469 | 90.0% | 46.3% |
| GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 557 | 89.2% | 45.5% |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HS-FIN INFO TECH CAMBRIA HEIGHTS | 373 | 84.7% | 66.0% |
Matched among New York high 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 SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #299 of 1,135 | #12 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #380 of 1,109 ▲ 124 | #12 of 132 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #684 of 1,135 ▼ 109 | #48 of 137 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 453 | #612 of 1,216 | #52 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #608 of 1,058 | #61 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.5% | #313 of 1,070 | #43 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.4% | #236 of 1,167 | #53 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.7% | #199 of 743 | #37 of 70 |
Ranked against other public high 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
453
-125 (-22%) vs 2020
-28% since 2010-11, when it was 633
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 453 | 39.6 | 11.4:1 | 89% (405) |
| 2023-24 | 488 | 37.7 | 12.9:1 | 86% (419) |
| 2022-23 | 505 | 37.9 | 13.3:1 | 86% (436) |
| 2020-21 | 578 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 88% (507) |
| 2017-18 | 557 | 35.8 | 15.6:1 | 83% (460) |
| 2015-16 | 541 | 31 | 17.4:1 | 75% (408) |
| 2010-11 | 633 | 38 | 16.7:1 | 68% (428) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL.
About SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL
SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL operates as a small high school in BROOKLYN, New York. It offers grades 9 through 12 and has 453 students enrolled. That is 32% below the average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 has 42 schools and 19,151 students, and SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL is one of those schools.
At SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL, 60% of students are Black. Smaller groups are 23% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 4% White, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Kings County is roughly 28% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL scores 57%.
The school had 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 11.4:1. It is about the same as the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 89%. That rate is above the 79% average among public schools in Kings County.
Among New York public high schools, SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations places SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL in the top 10% of New York schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 30.2 points above it (72.3% actual, 42.1% predicted).
In the surrounding county, Kings County, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Kings County has 583 public schools with about 291,697 students, including SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL.
The closest school to SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL is BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, located less than a tenth of a mile away. SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 72.3% against a local average of 40.9%.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 578 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 453 by 2024-25. The number of students per teacher dropped from 14.4 to 11.4 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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- PS 11 PURVIS J BEHANElementary · 923 students
- BENJAMIN BANNEKER ACADEMYHigh · 854 students
- PS 9 SARAH SMITH GARNET SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 782 students
- ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERSElementary · 757 students
- PS 20 CLINTON HILLElementary · 689 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
- BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 290
- URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART0.0 mi · 142
- CITY POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 454
- GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 557
- PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD0.2 mi · 112
- EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 196
Frequently asked questions
About SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL?
SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 453 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL?
At SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 4% White, 23% Hispanic, 60% Black, 8% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL?
SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.