URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT

As a compact secondary school in BROOKLYN, New York, URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT works with 487 students from grades 6 through 12, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20. Enrollment runs roughly 27% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 comprises 48 schools with combined enrollment of 44,136 students; URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT is among them.

Looking at the student body, URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT records that the most-represented group is Asian (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 20% White, 19% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Native American. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.0%; this one delivers 55.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

JHS 223 MONTAUK (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT. On composite proficiency, URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 548 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 16% to 6% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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