James Madison High School
Brooklyn, NY · High School · Grades 9-12
James Madison High School is a high school in Brooklyn, NY with 3,630 students enrolled and a 43% proficiency rate. Part of New York City Geographic District #22. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
James Madison High School is a high school located in Brooklyn, New York. The school serves 3,630 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 43% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 79% graduation rate.
73% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income community.
James Madison High School is part of the New York City Geographic District #22 in New York. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
James Madison High School has 3,630 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in New York City Geographic District #22 (743 students). Its 43% proficiency rate is 4 percentage points above the district average of 40%. Compared to the New York state average of 47%, the school performs 3 points lower.
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Frequently Asked Questions
James Madison High School has 3,630 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 43% of students at James Madison High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
James Madison High School has a 79% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
James Madison High School is part of the New York City Geographic District #22 in Brooklyn, New York. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.