WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL

WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is one of the one-room-style secondary schools in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15, with 140 students on its rolls from grades 10 through 11. Enrollment runs roughly 79% below the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 25,925 students; WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 7% White, 7% Black, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.8:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 40.8%; WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL posts 63.0%, +22.2 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Kings County put 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. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 131, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 62.2%.

WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 39%: 228 students in 2018 compared to 140 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 71% to 79%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 in 2025.

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