WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS

Located at 125 STUYVESANT AVE, in BROOKLYN, New York, WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS is an one-room-style middle school that instructs 77 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16. That puts it 85% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16, which oversees 23 schools and 5,175 students, WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS shows that the most-represented group is Black (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 32% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% Native American, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.3:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of -11.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Kings County shows 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. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS is one campus in the mix.

BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.5%.

WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 61%: 199 students in 2018 compared to 77 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 63% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 5.3:1 in 2025.

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