New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn NY

Original Research by School Decision on New Utrecht High School

New Utrecht High School is a four-year public high school serving about three thousand students in the 80th Street area of Brooklyn, in what is known as Southwest Brooklyn or Bay Ridge. The school draws from a distinct student body: roughly two-fifths of the enrollment is Asian, more than one-third is Hispanic, and about a fifth is white. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic circumstances of the families the school serves.

The school sits in New York City Geographic District 20, which covers Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Borough Park, and part of Sunset Park. District 20 has become one of the city's most strategically selective districts at the middle school level, with heavy use of academic screening for admissions. Three new public schools opened in the district in fall 2024 to address longstanding overcrowding, adding hundreds of elementary and middle school seats. New Utrecht itself is not a screening school; it is a regular neighborhood high school.

The school offers honors-level coursework and a business-focused career and technical education pathway. The specific scope of programming across other subjects, the depth of AP or dual-credit offerings beyond these, and academic performance metrics for the school were not available in the data provided. State testing results, graduation rates, chronic absenteeism, and special population enrollment counts are similarly missing, either because they were not reported publicly at the time of data collection or because New York reports these at the district level rather than individual school level in certain cases. A parent may want to look into these details directly with the school's website or by contacting the school or district office to understand the school's current academic profile and course breadth.

The neighborhood around New Utrecht is part of a dense, walkable Brooklyn where most daily needs are accessible on foot. Sunset Park and Bay Ridge blend residential blocks with active commercial corridors along Fifth and Eighth Avenues, offering a mix of small retail, restaurants, and services. The broader borough is undergoing substantial residential growth, with Downtown Brooklyn and other areas adding new housing at a rapid pace. Housing values in the school's zip code are moderate relative to other parts of Brooklyn, though the area remains expensive by national standards. Rents are correspondingly high. Transit access through the NYC subway system is extensive.

The school's immediate district, District 20, is among the city's best-rated and most competitive, which creates strong demand for school seats. This context shapes both the peer environment families encounter and the growth pressures on the district's schools. New Utrecht's size and composition reflect a well-established neighborhood school serving a working- and middle-class community with significant recent immigrant populations, particularly from Asia and Latin America. The school does not operate as a screened or magnet program, making it a regular neighborhood placement option for families in the area.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

77.0%Cohort of 829 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

25 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

32 tested

71.9%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

32 tested

96.9%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

74 tested · Grade 10

45.9%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

94 tested · Grade 10

68.1%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

30 tested

40.0%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

43 tested

62.8%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

33 tested

93.9%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

46 tested · Grade 9

30.4%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

20 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Comparative Government and Politics

86 tested

15.1%

scored 3 or higher

Human Geography

220 tested · Grade 9

30.9%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

56 tested

23.2%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

54 tested

18.5%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

111 tested · Grade 10

57.7%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

126 tested

69.8%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

60 tested

95.0%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

18 tested

27.8%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

25 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Art History

51 tested · Grade 10

37.3%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

66 tested

43.9%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

56 tested

60.7%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

86 tested

39.5%

scored 3 or higher

World History

138 tested · Grade 10

50.0%

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
Ela	978	71.0%
Math	736	54.0%
Social Studies	671	86.0%
Science	60	12.0%

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.