Enrollment
172
Middle
DISTRICT 183 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13·NCES 360009106366
URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)
170 GATES AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11238 · (718) 399-1061 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL172 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of New York public middle 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
147 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 58 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 64 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 50 | 29% |
Student demographics
47%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
33.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 35.0% |
% 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
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% 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 →
Schools most like URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)
URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (38.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) this school | 172 | 85.5% | 38.3% |
| EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 196 | 81.1% | 43.8% |
| NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 226 | 88.1% | 38.0% |
| IS 211 JOHN WILSON BROOKLYN | 188 | 84.0% | 55.3% |
| MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MEDIA LAW AND FINE ARTS (THE) BROOKLYN | 173 | 88.4% | 43.7% |
| LAMAD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 165 | 80.0% | 48.2% |
Matched among New York middle 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 UNISON SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #627 of 766 | #70 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #685 of 768 ▼ 19 | #79 of 91 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #412 of 768 ▼ 8 | #59 of 91 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 172 | #717 of 796 | #77 of 102 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.5% | #187 of 773 | #53 of 92 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
172
-16 (-9%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 9.4:1
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 | 172 | 20.1 | 8.6:1 | 85% (147) |
| 2023-24 | 179 | 22.4 | 8.0:1 | 85% (152) |
| 2022-23 | 173 | 20.6 | 8.4:1 | 84% (146) |
| 2020-21 | 188 | 20 | 9.4:1 | 86% (161) |
| 2017-18 | 146 | 14 | 10.4:1 | 89% (130) |
| 2015-16 | 151 | 13 | 11.6:1 | 87% (132) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE).
About URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)
URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) is the name of a small middle-grades school in BROOKLYN, New York. The school had 172 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for middle schools in New York is about 531, so this school runs 68% smaller than that.
Federal data list 42 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, with 19,151 students enrolled.
A majority of students at URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE), 69%, are Black. The rest of enrollment is 23% Hispanic and 4% White. Among all residents of Kings County, the Black share is about 28%. By the diversity index, URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) comes in at 47%.
Federal staffing data show 20.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) and a ratio of 8.6:1. That ratio is under the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 85% of students.
The allk12 Grade for URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) is C-. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 24% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 38.3%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 43.6%.
Kings County has about 2,631,580 residents, and median household income is about $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Kings County number 583 and enroll about 291,697.
The nearest public school is PS 56 LEWIS H LATIMER, at less than a tenth of a mile. URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 59.2% proficiency; URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) posts 38.3%.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) went from 188 students to 172.
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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
- PS 56 LEWIS H LATIMER0.0 mi · 253
- PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN0.3 mi · 923
- PS 3 BEDFORD VILLAGE (THE)0.3 mi · 174
- ACHIEVEMENT FIRST ENDEAVOR CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 579
- BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 338
- PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB0.4 mi · 133
Frequently asked questions
About URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)How many students attend URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)?
URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 172 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) serve?
URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)?
Approximately 8.6:1 students per teacher at URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE).
What is the racial breakdown of students at URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)?
At URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE), the student body is approximately 4% White, 23% Hispanic, 69% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) in?
URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13.
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