URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART

URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART, an one-room-style four-year high school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, educates 142 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART sits 79% leaner than that benchmark.

URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART is one of 42 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, a district that educates 19,151 students overall.

On the student-mix side, URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART records that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% Hispanic, 4% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.1:1. That figure is tighter 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 number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.1%; this one delivers 47.2%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kings County shows median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.9%.

URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 34%: 215 students in 2018 compared to 142 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 77% to 53%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2025.

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