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Enrollment
352
High
DISTRICT 678 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13·NCES 360009105928
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN
283 ADAMS ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11201 · (718) 260-2300 · Kings County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL352 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of New York public high schools
- C-Test 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
10.0:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
292 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 6 | 29 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 33 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 9 | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 10 | 72 | 20% |
| Grade 11 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 12 | 54 | 15% |
Student demographics
67%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
48.2%
NY avg 58.3% . -0.0pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.2% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.2% | 27.0% |
% 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
40.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 →
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URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN's state test result (40.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN this school | 352 | 83.0% | 40.6% |
| LEONARDO DA VINCI HIGH SCHOOL BUFFALO | 363 | 81.3% | 57.7% |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HS-FIN INFO TECH CAMBRIA HEIGHTS | 373 | 84.7% | 66.0% |
| CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY HOLLIS | 359 | 79.9% | 39.7% |
| LEWIS J BENNETT HIGH SCHOOL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLGY BUFFALO | 469 | 90.0% | 46.3% |
| VOYAGES PREP-SOUTH QUEENS JAMAICA | 217 | 82.9% | 47.3% |
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 URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #928 of 1,135 | #81 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #849 of 1,109 ▲ 64 | #77 of 132 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #970 of 1,135 ▲ 35 | #96 of 137 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 352 | #826 of 1,216 | #83 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #308 of 1,058 | #29 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #145 of 1,070 | #25 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.0% | #388 of 1,167 | #99 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.4% | #110 of 743 | #26 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
352
-144 (-29%) vs 2020
-11% since 2010-11, when it was 397
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 352 | 35.3 | 10.0:1 | 83% (292) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 40 | 9.8:1 | 88% (343) |
| 2022-23 | 440 | 45.7 | 9.6:1 | 85% (372) |
| 2020-21 | 496 | 37 | 13.4:1 | 84% (419) |
| 2017-18 | 478 | 34 | 14.1:1 | 85% (407) |
| 2015-16 | 477 | 32 | 14.9:1 | 80% (383) |
| 2010-11 | 397 | 26 | 15.3:1 | 75% (296) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN.
About URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN is a small high school in New York, located in BROOKLYN. The school runs grades 6 through 12 and enrolls 352 students. High schools in New York average about 668 students, which makes this school 47% below average.
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN is one school in a 42-school district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, which enrolls 19,151 students.
About 52% of the student body at URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN is Black. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 13% White, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County residents are about 28% Black. A diversity index of 67% means there is a 67% chance two randomly chosen students at URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.0:1. The school has 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across high schools in New York, the average ratio is 11.0:1. Federal data show 83% of students (292) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 19% of New York public high schools.
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN scores 40.6% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 44.5%.
In Kings County, home to about 2,631,580 people, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN shares Kings County with 582 other public schools.
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN's closest public school neighbor is URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LAW AND JUSTICE (THE), less than a tenth of a mile away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN at 8th of 9.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 496 (2020-21) to 352 (2024-25). There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.0:1) than in 2020-21 (13.4:1).
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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
- URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LAW AND JUSTICE (THE)0.0 mi · 416
- CITY POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 454
- GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 557
- BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 130.2 mi · 797
- SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 453
- BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 290
Frequently asked questions
About URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMENHow large is URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN?
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN enrolls approximately 352 students in grades 06-12.
What age range does URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN serve?
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN serves students from grade 06 through grade 12.
How many teachers does URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN have?
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1.
What is the student diversity at URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN?
Student demographics at URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN are roughly 13% White, 15% Hispanic, 52% Black, 15% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN?
URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 in Kings County.
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