1
If you could change one rule at WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, what would it be?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
665
High
STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL·NCES 360011505705
WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
198 VARET ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 · (718) 782-9830 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL665 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
56 FTE teachers
STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
581 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 10 | 137 | 21% |
| Grade 11 | 151 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 264 | 40% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
22.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 22.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 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
32.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (32.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL this school | 665 | 87.4% | 32.7% |
| LEGACY COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 747 | 89.4% | 44.5% |
| ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL FAR ROCKAWAY | 605 | 86.0% | 32.8% |
| BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 591 | 87.6% | 42.3% |
| UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SECONDARY SCHOOL-BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE BRONX | 596 | 88.3% | 93.0% |
| QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY FAR ROCKAWAY | 507 | 85.4% | 40.7% |
Matched among New York high 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 WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.7% | #1,049 of 1,135 | #108 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #989 of 1,109 ▼ 43 | #104 of 132 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,025 of 1,135 ▲ 28 | #107 of 137 ▲ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 665 | #378 of 1,216 | #24 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #678 of 1,058 | #68 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.1% | #492 of 1,070 | #68 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.4% | #294 of 1,167 | #68 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.7% | #96 of 743 | #22 of 70 |
Ranked against other public high 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
665
-307 (-32%) vs 2020
-24% since 2010-11, when it was 872
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 665 | 56 | 11.9:1 | 87% (581) |
| 2023-24 | 774 | 56.6 | 13.7:1 | 88% (682) |
| 2022-23 | 968 | 62.4 | 15.5:1 | 87% (846) |
| 2020-21 | 972 | 77 | 12.6:1 | 82% (794) |
| 2017-18 | 920 | 72.5 | 12.7:1 | 80% (740) |
| 2015-16 | 962 | 76 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 872 | 68 | 12.8:1 | 72% (631) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL.
About WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school in BROOKLYN, New York, administered by WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL. It covers grades 9 through 12, with a total enrollment of 665 students.
In federal data, the district for WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is the school itself.
Hispanic students are the majority at WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, with 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 37% Black. The county population is about 19% Hispanic. WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL's diversity index is 50%, against a US figure of 70%.
WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL operates with 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 11.9:1. On average, high schools in New York have 11.0:1, compared with 11.9:1 here. WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL reports 87% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 42.9%. WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL scores 32.7%.
WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is located in Kings County, where the median household income is $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Besides WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, Kings County has 582 other public schools.
PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA is the closest public school, about 0.2 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL comes in 8th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large. WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is a publicly funded charter school.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 307 fewer students in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 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
- PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA0.2 mi · 289
- PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON0.2 mi · 428
- PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN0.3 mi · 431
- MS 5820.4 mi · 332
- PS 196 TEN EYCK0.4 mi · 290
- YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN0.4 mi · 255
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL?
WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 665 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL serve?
WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 11.9:1 (56 FTE teachers).
How diverse is WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL?
WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 60% Hispanic, 37% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.