SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Located at 1065 ELTON ST, in BROOKLYN, New York, SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL is a close-knit high school that educates 350 students (grades 6 through 12), part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19. Enrollment runs roughly 48% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 18,619 students; SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest is composed of 25% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 90% of students at SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.9%; this one delivers 30.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is ACADEMY FOR YOUNG WRITERS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 482 students in 2018 compared to 350 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 74% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.