VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL

VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL, a tight-knit secondary school in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, serves 290 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL sits 57% below that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 11,062 students; VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL lists that 74% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.4%; this one delivers 47.5%.

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 the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 45.5%.

VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 29%: 407 students in 2018 compared to 290 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 85% to 74%.

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