This Fort Greene School Is The Best In Brooklyn: Ranking

BROOKLYN, NY — A school in Fort Greene has been named the best in Brooklyn, as well as among the top high schools in the state and country.

Brooklyn Technical High School, located on the corner of South Elliot Place and DeKalb Avenue, was among 11 city schools that made the top 100 in the U.S. News and World Report's latest "Best High Schools" annual ranking. All of the New York schools on the list are part of the city's public school system.

The Fort Greene high school was one of only two in Brooklyn that got a top spot on the nationwide list. The Brooklyn Latin School in Williamsburg also made the list.

It is not the first time both schools have earned top grades in the ranking. Last year, Brooklyn Tech landed second in New York's best schools and 22nd in the national ranking.

In the 2022 list, it slid slightly to sixth best in New York and 46th-best in the country, according to the list.

This year's schools were ranked on six measures: college readiness, college curriculum breadth, state assessment performance, state assessment proficiency, reading and math proficiency, reading and math performance, underserved student performance and graduation rates.

The data used in this year's ranking is from the 2019-20 academic school year. U.S. News adjusted its calculation of these measures to account for the impact COVID-19 had on schools in the 2019-20 school year.

Patch editor Anna Quinn contributed to this report.

Read more about the Best High Schools methodology and check out the list of 11 New York schools that topped the nationwide ranking.