JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL

As a well-populated senior high in BROOKLYN, New York, JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL educates 3,983 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22. That puts it 496% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Across the 40 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 (30,207 students total), JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 20% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 10% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

On the resource side, JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL lists 244 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 60.2%, a residual of +12.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household earnings sit near $80,263, 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 JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL is one.

PS 197 KINGS HIGHWAY ACADEMY (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

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Five-year trend. JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 9% since 2018, when it stood at 3,655 (now 3,983). Over the same period, the White share expanded from 45% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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