High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Life Academy High School for Film and Music, Brooklyn, NY

Life Academy High School for Film and Music is a public high school in Brooklyn, part of New York City Geographic District #21. It enrolled 198 students in 2024-25, with 11.0 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR FILM AND MUSIC".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 198
Teachers (FTE): 18.0
Students per teacher: 11.0
Grades: 9 to 12

This school's ratio is 2.2 lower than the district figure of 13.2. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.0

District13.2

New York11.4

United States15.3

School details

Address: 2630 Benson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11214
Phone: (718)333-7750
District: New York City Geographic District #21
County: Kings County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Large
NCES school ID: 360015205940

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: 158
Reduced-price lunch: 3
Free or reduced-price lunch: 16181.3% 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 #21

Edward R Murrow High School 3,503 students
Abraham Lincoln High School 2,210 students
John Dewey High School 2,209 students
Brooklyn Studio Secondary School 892 students
Kingsborough Early College School 722 students
William E Grady Career and Technical Education High School 646 students
Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies 619 students
High School of Sports Management 385 students
Leaders High School 383 students
International High School at Lafayette 331 students
Liberation Diploma Plus 187 students

High schools elsewhere in Brooklyn

Brooklyn Technical High School New York City Geographic District #13
Fort Hamilton High School New York City Geographic District #20
James Madison High School New York City Geographic District #22
Midwood High School New York City Geographic District #22
Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School New York City Geographic District #20
New Utrecht High School New York City Geographic District #20
Sunset Park High School New York City Geographic District #15
Clara Barton High School New York City Geographic District #17
Medgar Evers College Preparatory School New York City Geographic District #17
High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology New York City Geographic District #20
Leon M Goldstein High School for the Sciences New York City Geographic District #22
Brooklyn High School of the Arts New York City Geographic District #15

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.