Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn NY

Original Research by School Decision on Brooklyn Technical High School

Brooklyn Technical High School is a large selective public high school serving grades nine through twelve in Fort Greene. The school serves a diverse student body with a majority Asian population, a substantial share of white students, and smaller shares of Black and Hispanic students. About three in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating moderate economic diversity within the enrollment.

The school's location in Fort Greene places it in a Brooklyn neighborhood that is highly walkable and well-served by transit. Fort Greene sits at the center of a rapidly growing borough, with major development reshaping neighborhoods across Brooklyn. Downtown Brooklyn, the city's largest business district outside Manhattan, is nearby and has become a mixed-use hub of residential and commercial activity following major rezoning. The broader borough has seen strong housing growth, with new development particularly concentrated in Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg, reshaping the residential character of many areas. Brooklyn's employment landscape centers on healthcare, higher education, and a growing technology sector, with major anchors like Maimonides Medical Center and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. The region benefits from dense subway and bus transit, extensive libraries through the Brooklyn Public Library system, and major parks including Prospect Park, which draws millions of visitors annually.

Brooklyn Technical High School sits within District 13, a large New York City school district that covers neighborhoods across central Brooklyn. The district made significant policy shifts starting in 2021, adopting lottery-based, screen-free admissions at all ten of its middle schools, with reserved seats for students from low-income families and those in temporary housing. The district also merged two schools to create Arts & Letters 13 United, an unzoned K-8 school, and recently truncated the Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School from a 6-12 to a 9-12 school, removing a middle-grades arts pathway. These changes reflect the district's work to reshape access and structure across its portfolio, though they affect schools upstream of the high school level.

Data on Brooklyn Technical High School's state testing results, graduation rate, and chronic absenteeism were not available. The comparison metrics that would position the school relative to other districts in Kings County could not be computed from the available data. Without these figures, a reader cannot assess how the school's students perform on state assessments or how many students complete high school on time.

The school's enrollment is substantial for its grade band, and the student body reflects the broader diversity of central Brooklyn and the competitiveness of selective public high school admissions in New York City. The presence of a majority Asian student population may reflect both the demographics of the neighborhoods it draws from and the outcomes of an admissions process that attracts families actively engaged in school selection. The information provided does not describe the school's academic programs, curriculum pathways, electives, or specialized offerings. A parent considering this school would benefit from visiting its website and speaking directly with staff about course options, program strengths, extracurriculars, and college placement outcomes, since those details are not captured in the available data.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

96.0%Cohort of 1,516 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,253 schools plotted. 14 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Advanced Placement & IB

34 subjects offered · 2023-24

Each card is one AP or IB subject. The headline number is the share of students scoring 3 or higher on the exam — the threshold for college credit at most universities. The bar below each rate shows the underlying distribution across performance levels.

Score:12· no credit345· extremely well qualified

Math and Computer Science

Calculus AB

534 tested · Grade 10

95.9%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

236 tested

97.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

317 tested

94.6%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

1,430 tested · Grade 10

94.9%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

379 tested · Grade 10

95.0%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

499 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

95.2%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

165 tested

94.5%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

61 tested

98.4%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

166 tested

83.7%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

21 tested

61.9%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

34 tested

85.3%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

67 tested

94.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

26 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

97 tested · Grade 10

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Comparative Government and Politics

359 tested

94.7%

scored 3 or higher

European History

241 tested · Grade 10

92.1%

scored 3 or higher

Human Geography

132 tested · Grade 9

90.2%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

555 tested

90.5%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

64 tested

90.6%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

444 tested

90.8%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

1,009 tested · Grade 10

96.8%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

62 tested · Grade 10

98.4%

scored 3 or higher

French Language and Culture

34 tested · Grade 10

94.1%

scored 3 or higher

German Language and Culture

2 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

17 tested

82.4%

scored 3 or higher

Japanese Language and Culture

1 tested · Grade 9

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

32 tested · Grade 10

93.8%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Literature and Culture

17 tested

76.5%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

21 tested · Grade 10

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

761 tested

91.3%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

91 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

53 tested

90.6%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

359 tested

95.3%

scored 3 or higher

World History

990 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

95.4%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Math	1,380	100.0%
Ela	1,379	100.0%
Social Studies	1,040	99.0%
Science	288	100.0%

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.