High School for Public Service-heroes of Tomorrow, Brooklyn NY

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# High School for Public Service-Heroes of Tomorrow

High School for Public Service-Heroes of Tomorrow is a small regular public high school in Brooklyn, located in the Kingston Avenue corridor. It serves grades nine through twelve and enrolls a student body that is predominantly Black, with a substantial share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The enrollment skews toward upper-class grades, with more twelfth-graders than ninth-graders; the school is small for its grade band.

The school is housed in a dense, walkable Brooklyn neighborhood with substantial transit access. Brooklyn's built environment supports active street life and easy movement on foot, with nearby commercial and residential areas. The surrounding housing market shows median home values above the state benchmark and rental costs typical of the borough's tighter market. Brooklyn itself is in active growth, with steady residential development and major employers across healthcare, higher education, and technology anchoring the local economy.

The school offers Advanced Placement coursework, giving students at this school access to college-credit pathways during high school. Beyond that program offering, the data on specific curriculum, course breadth, electives, vocational pathways, or other program details was not available. Neither state assessment results, graduation rates, nor attendance data were provided, so any read on academic proficiency, on-time completion, or chronic absenteeism cannot be made from the materials on hand.

District 17, the school's parent district, is operating under citywide mandates affecting reading instruction in elementary schools and faces a phase-in of smaller class-size caps through 2027-28. The district has seen enrollment decline over the past several years, driven primarily by residential population loss, which has created excess seats at all grade levels. This context shapes resource allocation and facility decisions district-wide. One middle school in the district was recently re-sited and rebranded, signaling the kinds of structural adjustments the district is making in response to enrollment pressure.

The school's website was not provided in the available information, so families would want to visit the school directly or reach out to the main office to learn about specific offerings, culture, teacher expertise, support services, and how the AP program is deployed within the overall curriculum. State assessment data and a four-year graduation rate would clarify whether students are reaching proficiency and completing on time, and a parent may want to look into those figures with the school.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=95%Cohort of 104 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

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

7 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

Computer Science Principles

13 tested · Grade 10

15.4%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Environmental Science

9 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

9 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

U.S. History

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

31 tested

12.9%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

18 tested · Grade 10

5.6%

scored 3 or higher

World History

27 tested · Grade 10

33.3%

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
Social Studies	120	64.0%
Ela	110	54.0%
Science	52	37.0%
Math	34	15.0%

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.