Enrollment
77
Middle
DISTRICT 157 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16·NCES 360009402499
WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS
125 STUYVESANT AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11221 · (718) 574-2357 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL77 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% 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.
- CBeats 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
5.3:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 7.3:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
72 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 | 31 | 40% |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 23 | 30% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
26.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
33.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 26 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 down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 25.0% |
% 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
29.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS
WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS's state test result (29.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS this school | 77 | 93.5% | 29.3% |
| COLLEGIATE ACADEMY-MATH-PERSONAL AWA BROOKLYN | 85 | 91.8% | 68.5% |
| RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 98 | 96.9% | 24.4% |
| MOTT HALL IV BROOKLYN | 108 | 97.2% | 29.4% |
| SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE BROOKLYN BROOKLYN | 119 | 94.1% | 29.8% |
| MS 266 PARK PLACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 75 | 88.0% | 45.9% |
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 WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 77 | #789 of 796 | #99 of 102 |
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
77
-22 (-22%) vs 2020
-68% since 2010-11, when it was 240
Student : Teacher
5.3:1
was 7.1:1
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 | 77 | 14.5 | 5.3:1 | 94% (72) |
| 2023-24 | 85 | 12 | 7.1:1 | 96% (82) |
| 2022-23 | 100 | 13.5 | 7.4:1 | 96% (96) |
| 2020-21 | 99 | 14 | 7.1:1 | 96% (95) |
| 2017-18 | 199 | 20 | 9.9:1 | 94% (187) |
| 2015-16 | 169 | 17 | 9.9:1 | 76% (129) |
| 2010-11 | 240 | 20 | 12.0:1 | 76% (182) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS.
About WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS
WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS is a small middle school with an address in BROOKLYN, New York. The latest federal count shows 77 students in grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in New York is about 531 students, so this school is 85% smaller than average.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 operates 23 schools. Combined enrollment is 5,175 students.
WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS's enrollment is 55% Black. The remaining shares are 32% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% Native American, and 3% Pacific Islander. Census estimates put the Black share of Kings County's population at about 28%. By the diversity index, WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS comes in at 59%.
At WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS, 14.5 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 5.3:1. That ratio is under the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 94% of enrollment. Compared with the 79% average for public schools in Kings County, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against New York public middle schools, WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS 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.
In New York, WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 29.3% actual against a predicted 40.6%.
In the county around the school, Kings County, median household income is about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS is among the 583 public schools in Kings County.
The closest other public school is BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF GLOBAL FINANCE (THE), less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS at 5th of 9.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 99 in 2020-21 and 77 in 2024-25, a 22% decrease. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 7.1:1 to 5.3:1.
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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
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Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGYHigh · 469 students
- PS 40 GEORGE W CARVERElementary · 465 students
- PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKSElementary · 430 students
- BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 353 students
- BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOLElementary · 352 students
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF GLOBAL FINANCE (THE)High · 222 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
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF GLOBAL FINANCE (THE)0.0 mi · 222
- BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.0 mi · 219
- MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 176
- PS 26 JESSE OWENS0.1 mi · 214
- PS 81 THADDEUS STEVENS0.1 mi · 182
- EMBER CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 373
Frequently asked questions
About WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESSHow many students attend WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS?
WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS enrolls approximately 77 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS serve?
WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS have?
WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 5.3:1.
How diverse is WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS?
WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS reports a student body of 6% White, 32% Hispanic, 55% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS?
WHITELAW REID ACADEMY OF ARTS AND BUSINESS is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 in Kings County.
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