SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 153 35TH ST, in BROOKLYN, New York, SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOL is a large secondary school that caters to 1,348 students (grades 9 through 12), part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15. Enrollment runs roughly 102% above the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 25,925 students; SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Asian, 5% White, 5% Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 108 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kings County) records that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 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 SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOL is one.

PS 371 LILLIAN L RASHKIS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOL at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 54.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,219 (now 1,348). Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 9% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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