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What's the biggest difference between WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) and what you expected?
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Enrollment
424
High
DISTRICT 477 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14·NCES 360011905896
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)
223 GRAHAM AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 · (718) 599-1207 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL424 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 41% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
12.5:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
344 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 100 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 114 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 111 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 99 | 23% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
53.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -13.0pp since 2023
Math
24.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -34.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 34 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
50.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 →
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WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)'s state test result (50.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) this school | 424 | 81.1% | 50.2% |
| VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 396 | 82.8% | 61.0% |
| FOOD AND FINANCE HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 474 | 84.2% | 56.8% |
| NORTHSIDE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 421 | 82.7% | 34.7% |
| CELIA CRUZ BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC (THE) BRONX | 407 | 86.5% | 58.2% |
| RENAISSANCE HIGH SCHOOL FOR MUSICAL THEATER AND THE ARTS BRONX | 385 | 87.0% | 63.3% |
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 HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #730 of 1,135 | #48 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #968 of 1,109 ▼ 434 | #100 of 132 ▼ 80 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #911 of 1,135 ▼ 207 | #84 of 137 ▼ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 424 | #655 of 1,216 | #58 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #778 of 1,058 | #75 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #445 of 1,070 | #61 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.1% | #434 of 1,167 | #113 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +56.5% | #12 of 339 | #6 of 53 |
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
424
+39 (+10%) vs 2020
+17% since 2010-11, when it was 362
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 424 | 33.8 | 12.5:1 | 81% (344) |
| 2023-24 | 422 | 32.4 | 13.0:1 | 81% (343) |
| 2022-23 | 408 | 30.7 | 13.3:1 | 80% (326) |
| 2020-21 | 385 | 25 | 15.4:1 | 86% (331) |
| 2017-18 | 271 | 23 | 11.8:1 | 80% (216) |
| 2015-16 | 258 | 24 | 10.8:1 | 80% (206) |
| 2010-11 | 362 | 23 | 15.7:1 | 78% (284) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE).
About WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is a public high school run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 in BROOKLYN, New York. The school's 424 students are in grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in New York average about 668 students each.
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is a school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14. The district has 38 schools and 15,288 students.
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is 64% Hispanic by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 25% Black, 4% White, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Kings County's population at about 19%. WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)'s diversity index is 52%, against a US figure of 70%.
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) employs 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 12.5:1. This ratio sits 1.5 above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 81% in 2024-25. That tracks the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
The allk12 Grade for WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is C+. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 41% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 50.2% actual against 45.2% predicted.
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is located in Kings County, where the median household income is $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is one of 583 public schools in the county.
Nearest public school: BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL (THE), less than a tenth of a mile away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)'s average proficiency of 50.2% compares with 53.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The federal government classifies WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)'s location as City: Large.
Enrollment at WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) climbed 10% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 385 to 424 students. The ratio was 15.4:1 in 2020-21 and 12.5:1 in 2024-25.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14
- IS 318 EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOSMiddle · 1,028 students
- BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL (THE)High · 772 students
- WILLIAMSBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOLHigh · 667 students
- PS 31 SAMUEL F DUPONTElementary · 644 students
- PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGOElementary · 636 students
- WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNHigh · 622 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 LATIN SCHOOL (THE)0.0 mi · 772
- LYONS COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 362
- PS 18 EDWARD BUSH0.1 mi · 149
- BROWNSVILLE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 202
- PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY0.2 mi · 257
- PS 196 TEN EYCK0.2 mi · 290
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)How many students attend WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)?
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) enrolls approximately 424 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) serve?
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE).
How diverse is WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)?
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) reports a student body of 4% White, 64% Hispanic, 25% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) in?
WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14.
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