Feb 2, 2018 1 min read Central Brooklyn

23 Brooklyn Public Schools Named Best in New York State

Brooklyn School of Inquiry & TAOTS that are co-located at this building both made the list this year.

The New York State Education Department has announced its Reward Schools – 155 high achieving and high progress schools across the state. Brooklyn is home to 23 of them.

Reward Schools recognize both, high academic achievement – top 20% of schools based on English language arts and math performance over the previous two years, as well as high progress across student groups. New York City had 64 Reward Schools this year.

Of the 23 Reward Schools in Brooklyn, five are public charter schools, District 22 was home to four and District 20 – to three exceptional schools, three schools in District 16 made exceptional progress. Here is the list by District:

District 13:

PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN High Performing
BROOKLYN TECH HIGH SCHOOL High Performing

District 15

PS 39 HENRY BRISTOW High Performing
MILLENNIUM BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL High Performing

District 16

PS 25 EUBIE BLAKE SCHOOL High Progress
PS 26 JESSE OWENS High Progress
PS 28 WARREN PREP ACADEMY High Progress

District 17

PS 249 CATON High Performing
PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE High Progress

District 20

PS 247 High Performing
ACADEMY OF TALENTED SCHOLARS (TAOTS) High Performing
PS 686 BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF INQUIRY High Performing

District 21

PS 101 VERRAZANO High Performing

District 22

PS 134 High Performing
PS 195 MANHATTAN BEACH High Performing
LEON M GOLDSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL-SCIENCES High Performing
BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY High Performing

District 32

ALL CITY LEADERSHIP SECONDARY SCHOOL High Performing

Charter schools

SUCCESS ACADEMY COBBLE HILL High Performing
SUCCESS ACADEMY WILLIAMSBURG High Performing
IMAGINE ME LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL High Progress
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST BUSHWICK CHARTER High Performing
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER High Progress

Updated on 02/06/18 to reflect we missed the two Achievement First schools in the data.