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High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Fort Hamilton High School, Brooklyn, NY

CEP schoolFort Hamilton High School is a public high school in Brooklyn, part of New York City Geographic District #20. It enrolled 4,044 students in 2024-25, with 16.0 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
4,044
Teachers (FTE)
252.0
Students per teacher
16.0
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 2.3 higher than the district figure of 13.7. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.0
District13.7
New York11.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
8301 Shore Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11209
Phone
(718)748-1537
District
New York City Geographic District #20
County
Kings County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
360015101952
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
2,954
Reduced-price lunch
136
Free or reduced-price lunch
3,09076.4% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

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 #20

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.