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Academy for Young Writers, Brooklyn, NY

Academy for Young Writers is a public high school in Brooklyn, part of New York City Geographic District #19. It enrolled 398 students in 2024-25, with 9.3 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "ACADEMY FOR YOUNG WRITERS".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
398
Teachers (FTE)
43.0
Students per teacher
9.3
Grades
6 to 12

This school's ratio is 3.2 lower than the district figure of 12.5. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school9.3
District12.5
New York11.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
1065 Elton St, Brooklyn, NY 11208
Phone
(718)688-7230
District
New York City Geographic District #19
County
Kings County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
360012005884
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
344
Reduced-price lunch
11
Free or reduced-price lunch
35589.2% of enrollment.

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in New York City Geographic District #19

High schools elsewhere in Brooklyn

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.