FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL

FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL is one of the substantial 9-12 campuss in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, with 4,044 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL sits 505% bigger than that benchmark.

FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL is one of 48 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, a district that works with 44,136 students overall.

Demographically, FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 31% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL has 252 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.9%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of +12.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows that median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 185 WALTER KASSENBROCK, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 4,580 students in 2018 compared to 4,044 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 27% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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