Enrollment
138
High
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15·NCES 360009205243
SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
173 CONOVER ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11231 · (718) 237-8902 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL138 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
8.8:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
130 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 9 | 7% |
| Grade 10 | 74 | 54% |
| Grade 11 | 21 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 34 | 25% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
34.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -17.0pp since 2023
Math
17.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 17.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 26.0% |
% 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
32.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (32.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 138 | 94.2% | 32.3% |
| INNOVATION DIPLOMA PLUS NEW YORK | 110 | 91.8% | 34.5% |
| BRONX REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 125 | 92.8% | 44.3% |
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR VIOLIN AND DANCE BRONX | 106 | 96.2% | 35.0% |
| BRONX COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 162 | 92.6% | 44.0% |
| NEW DIRECTIONS SECONDARY SCHOOL BRONX | 123 | 96.7% | 38.7% |
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 SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #1,053 of 1,135 | #111 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #1,038 of 1,109 ▼ 110 | #113 of 132 ▼ 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #1,106 of 1,135 ▼ 131 | #123 of 137 ▼ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 138 | #1,145 of 1,216 | #138 of 146 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.2% | #103 of 1,167 | #19 of 144 |
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
138
-8 (-5%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 162
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 9.1:1
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 | 138 | 15.7 | 8.8:1 | 94% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 123 | 15.7 | 7.9:1 | 93% (115) |
| 2022-23 | 103 | 14.8 | 7.0:1 | 89% (92) |
| 2020-21 | 146 | 16 | 9.1:1 | 92% (134) |
| 2017-18 | 184 | 13 | 14.2:1 | 90% (165) |
| 2015-16 | 179 | 11 | 16.3:1 | 80% (143) |
| 2010-11 | 162 | 10 | 16.2:1 | 82% (133) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL.
About SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is a very small high school in BROOKLYN, New York, administered by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15. The school teaches grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 138 students. It has 79% fewer students than the average for high schools in New York (about 668).
SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 51 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15, which enrolls 25,925 students in total.
More than half of the students at SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL are Hispanic (70%). The next largest groups are 19% Black, 7% White, and 2% Asian. In Kings County overall, about 19% of residents are Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL scores 46%.
The school has 15.7 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 8.8 students per teacher. High schools in New York have an average ratio of 11.0:1. The school reported 94% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is above the 79% average among public schools in Kings County.
SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 11% of New York public high schools.
In New York, SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 32.3% actual against a predicted 40.4%.
The county, Kings County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $80,263 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Counting SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, Kings County has 583 public schools.
PS 15 PATRICK F DALY is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 8th of 9 on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL as City: Large.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 146 (2020-21) to 138 (2024-25).
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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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- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- PS 15 PATRICK F DALY0.0 mi · 396
- RED HOOK NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL0.4 mi · 168
- SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 290
- PAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 413
- BROOKLYN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES0.6 mi · 586
- BROOKLYN NEW SCHOOL-PS 146 (THE)0.6 mi · 634
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL?
SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 138 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 8.8:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 7% White, 70% Hispanic, 19% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL in?
SOUTH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15.
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