Enrollment
255
High
DISTRICT 477 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14·NCES 360011906033
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN
325 BUSHWICK AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 · (718) 387-5641 · Kings County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL255 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
234 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
42.2%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
28.5%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 up about 10 points.
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
30.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
255
-152 (-37%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 14.0:1
% White
5%
was 5%
% Hispanic
40%
was 40%
% Black
46%
was 49%
% Asian
5%
was 3%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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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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
- PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN0.0 mi · 167
- MS 5820.0 mi · 332
- PS 196 TEN EYCK0.0 mi · 290
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENTERPRISE BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY (THE)0.2 mi · 526
- PROGRESS HIGH SCHOOL FOR PROFESSIONAL CAREERS0.2 mi · 418
- EAST WILLIAMSBURG SCHOLARS ACADEMY0.2 mi · 482
Frequently asked questions
About YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYNWhat is the total enrollment at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN?
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN enrolls approximately 255 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN serve?
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN serves grades 06-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN?
The student-to-teacher ratio at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN is approximately 10.1:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN?
Student demographics at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN are roughly 5% White, 40% Hispanic, 46% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN public or private?
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14.
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