YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN

YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN, a very small senior high in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14, hosts 255 students, covering grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 62% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

Across the 38 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 (15,288 students total), YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN logs that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 40% Hispanic, 5% White, 5% Asian. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.3%; this one delivers 30.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN is one.

The closest other public school is PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN. On composite proficiency, YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN has declined 37%, going from 407 students in 2018 to 255 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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