Enrollment
161
Middle
DISTRICT 259 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19·NCES 360012006417
VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL
800 VAN SICLEN AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11207 · (718) 927-4701 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL161 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of New York public middle schools
- DTest 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
7.4:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
153 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 | 45 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 56 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 60 | 37% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
QUIET COMMUNITY
Be the first to start a discussion at VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
START A DISCUSSIONTest scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
37.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +16.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 20.8% |
% 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
28.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL
VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (28.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 161 | 95.0% | 28.6% |
| LEGACY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BROOKLYN | 160 | 96.3% | 28.5% |
| BROOKLYN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLORATION SCHOOL (BEES) BROOKLYN | 147 | 98.0% | 32.6% |
| EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 153 | 94.1% | 55.7% |
| MOTT HALL BRIDGES ACADEMY BROOKLYN | 200 | 98.5% | 19.6% |
| ELIJAH STROUD MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 119 | 98.3% | 38.9% |
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 VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #732 of 766 | #86 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #658 of 768 ▲ 78 | #72 of 91 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #574 of 768 ▲ 168 | #78 of 91 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 161 | #736 of 796 | #80 of 102 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.0% | #66 of 773 | #13 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -46.7% | #29 of 524 | #8 of 56 |
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
161
-127 (-44%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
7.4:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 161 | 21.9 | 7.4:1 | 95% (153) |
| 2023-24 | 176 | 20.3 | 8.7:1 | 97% (171) |
| 2022-23 | 221 | 20.6 | 10.8:1 | 97% (215) |
| 2020-21 | 288 | 18 | 16.0:1 | 95% (274) |
| 2017-18 | 302 | 19 | 15.9:1 | 95% (287) |
| 2015-16 | 303 | 17 | 17.8:1 | 81% (246) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL
BROOKLYN, New York, is home to VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL, a small middle school. The school's enrollment of 161 students covers grades 6 through 8. Statewide, middle schools in New York average about 531 students each.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 serves 18,619 students across 53 schools.
Black students are the majority at VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 66% of enrollment. The school is also 27% Hispanic and 2% Native American. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 28%. The school's diversity index is 49%, meaning two students picked at random have a 49% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 7.4:1 comes from the school's 21.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 2.9 students per teacher below the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 95% in 2024-25. Among public schools in Kings County, the average eligibility rate is 79%.
Measured against New York public middle schools, VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 40.0%. VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 28.6%, 11.4 points below that line.
Kings County census figures show that the median household income is $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. There are 583 public schools in Kings County, enrolling about 291,697 students in all.
The closest public school, EAST NEW YORK ARTS AND CIVICS HIGH SCHOOL (THE), is less than a tenth of a mile from VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 6th among 7 schools close by.
VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data put enrollment at 288 in 2020-21 and 161 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.0:1 in 2020-21, and 7.4:1 in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 #19
- TRANSIT TECH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 795 students
- PS 214 MICHAEL FRIEDSAMElementary · 728 students
- PS 159 ISAAC PITKINElementary · 661 students
- PS 108 SAL ABBRACCIAMENTOElementary · 649 students
- EAST NEW YORK FAMILY ACADEMYHigh · 610 students
- PS 7 ABRAHAM LINCOLNElementary · 589 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
- EAST NEW YORK ARTS AND CIVICS HIGH SCHOOL (THE)0.0 mi · 138
- ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL0.0 mi · 630
- PS 360.1 mi · 422
- EAST NEW YORK FAMILY ACADEMY0.1 mi · 610
- COLLEGIATE ACADEMY-MATH-PERSONAL AWA0.2 mi · 85
- PS 213 NEW LOTS0.2 mi · 199
Frequently asked questions
About VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 161 students in grades 06-08.
Is VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.4:1.
How diverse is VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 27% Hispanic, 66% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.