The Boerum Hill School for International Studies

284 Baltic Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 · Brooklyn · Secondary School

DBN: 15K497

Secondary School

Unzoned

SchoolDigger Middle: 358 (of 1500)

SchoolDigger High: 856 (of 1234)

Academic quality

Graduation rate -- share of a cohort who earned a diploma within 4 (or 6) years of starting 9th grade.
College/career readiness -- DOE's stricter bar: graduated AND met at least one benchmark (course credits, exam scores, etc.) showing they're on track for college or a career.
Regents pass rate -- share of students who took that exam this year and scored 65+, NY State's passing threshold.

Attendance: 87.2%

57.7% attend 90%+ of days

Graduation & college readiness

4-year graduation rate

89.3%(citywide avg: 89.7%)

6-year graduation rate

92.8%(citywide avg: 94.7%)

4-year college/career readiness

56.1%(citywide avg: 63.5%)

6-year college/career readiness

54.4%(citywide avg: 56.6%)

Regents exam pass rates (scored 65+)

English

41.6%

Algebra I

13.3%

Living Environment (Biology)

39.2%

Global History

73%

US History

47.2%

Citywide comparisons are the average across high schools. Small cohorts are flagged since a handful of students can swing a percentage a lot; cells too small to report are omitted by DOE for student privacy.Source: NYC Open Data: School Quality Reports Data (2023-24 school year)

See full grade-by-grade test results (ELA, Math, Science) →

Demographics

776 students enrolled

Economic Need Index: 49.1%

Race & ethnicity

Asian

3.2%

Black

26.9%

Hispanic or Latino

24%

White

38%

Multiracial

5.5%

Native American

0.6%

Other groups

Students with disabilities

21.9%

English Language Learners

5.9%

Living in poverty

45.9%

Female

45.1%

Male

54.9%

Economic Need Index is DOE's estimate of the share of students facing economic hardship, based on eligibility for public assistance, temporary housing status, and household income relative to the poverty line. Some very high values are reported by DOE only as "Above 95%" for student privacy and are shown here as 95%.Source: NYC Open Data: Demographic Snapshot (2021-22 school year)

Middle School admissions priority breakdown

Admissions cycle

Open

94 seats

2 applicants per seat

Priority groups, in the order NYC DOE offers seats. Tap a group for NYC DOE's exact wording.

1. Priority to applicants whose sibling(s) will be enrolled in this school next year

~100% admitted

There were less than 10 applicants eligible for free or reduced price lunch in this group and all received offers last year. There were less than 10 additional applicants in this group and all received offers last year.This group's offers alone accounted for ~19% of the program's seats -- not the same as this group's own admit rate above, since offers can exceed seats (not everyone who gets one enrolls).

2. Then to Students and Residents of District 15

~100% admitted

There were about 10 applicants eligible for free or reduced price lunch in this group and all received offers last year. There were about 70 additional applicants in this group and all received offers last year.This group's offers alone accounted for ~85% of the program's seats -- not the same as this group's own admit rate above, since offers can exceed seats (not everyone who gets one enrolls).

3. Then to students and residents of Brooklyn

~63% admitted

There were about 20 applicants eligible for free or reduced price lunch in this group and almost all received offers last year. There were about 40 additional applicants in this group and about 20 received offers last year.This group's offers alone accounted for ~40% of the program's seats -- not the same as this group's own admit rate above, since offers can exceed seats (not everyone who gets one enrolls).

4. Then to New York City residents

No applicants

There were no applicants in this group.This group's offers alone accounted for ~0% of the program's seats -- not the same as this group's own admit rate above, since offers can exceed seats (not everyone who gets one enrolls).

Estimates derived from NYC DOE's own wording, which rounds and fuzzes small numbers for privacy. Each group's applicant count is independent of the others -- schools are usually oversubscribed, so applicant counts across groups often add up to more than the total seats. That's expected, not an error.Source: NYC DOE MySchools Admissions Data (2025-26 admissions cycle)