23 Brooklyn Public Schools Named Best in New York State
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.