At a Glance
A small, fiercely sought-after health-career high school where 8 families compete for every seat
Best suited for
Families who want a small, themed high school with a health-professions orientation and are willing to weigh mixed survey signals against a genuinely unusual level of demand from other Brooklyn families.
Overall Rating
Rating = average of 4-year graduation, English Regents college-ready and Regents completion · DOE 2025 report
Bands are Motley's thresholds on a 0–100 scale, not New York State performance levels.
How this is scored→What stands out
- Zero suspensions in the most recent reporting period — students stay in class, full stop.
- A specialized health-career identity that helps explain the 8-to-1 applicant-to-seat ratio.
- AP courses offered alongside ELL support and world languages, serving a wide range of learners within a small enrollment.
- An unusually broad athletics slate for a 254-student school — nine sports including tennis, handball, and indoor/outdoor track.
- Very high teacher-to-teacher trust (95%), which often correlates with a collaborative staff culture.
Things to consider
- Teacher-rated instruction quality at 74% is well below the district average of 89.1% — a signal worth probing on a visit.
- Parent satisfaction at 83% trails the district's 91%, even as parent-teacher trust is healthy.
- Only 14 teachers completed the staff survey — the climate numbers come from a small sample.
- With 254 students, course variety and social circle are necessarily more limited than at larger high schools.
- An economic need index of 84 means most families are stretching to make the school work — important context for understanding the PTA and parent engagement picture.
Based on 2024-25 data
School SummaryDistrict 17
District 17 houses some of the city's highest-rated Success Academy charters, but its traditional public options vary widely — Academy for Health Careers sits among the smaller, more specialized programs rather than among the standouts on raw quality metrics.
Academics
The data package doesn't break out school-level proficiency rates, so it's hard to say exactly how students perform on state tests — what is visible is a program built around AP courses, ELL support, and French and Spanish, with average class size of 22 that mirrors the district. The school's specialized health-career identity and its extreme applicant-to-seat ratio (roughly 8-to-1) suggest families see academic value worth competing for, even if the survey signal from teachers on instruction quality is softer than the district norm.
Culture
The single most striking climate number here is zero suspensions — the school is keeping kids in class rather than removing them, which matters in a district where the average suspension rate hovers near 0.55%. On the survey side, parents report solid trust in teachers (86%) but more modest overall satisfaction (below the district's 91%), and teachers rate instructional quality at 74% — well below the district's 89.1% — though their trust in one another (95%) is very strong. The teacher survey drew only 14 responses, which is worth weighing as you read those numbers.
Community
About 71% of students are Black, 20% Hispanic, and 6% Asian, with an economic need index of 84 — meaning most students come from lower-income households — and the school enrolls 17% students with IEPs. The neighborhood around it skews older and more child-light than the city average (only 11% of Crown Heights households have kids under 18), but the families who do send their children here are committing to a small, specialized program.
Neighborhood
Crown Heights is a Brooklyn neighborhood where median household income sits around $73,859 and about 20% of households live below the poverty line, while the median home value of just over $1 million tells you the housing market has moved sharply upward in recent years. Forty-two percent of adults here hold a bachelor's degree, but only 11% of households include children — the area has many adult-only households alongside families. Three subway lines reach the school on foot, which makes commuting from elsewhere in Brooklyn or Manhattan realistic.
From the C at Kingston-Throop Avs it's about a 6-minute walk, the 3 at Kingston Av is roughly 10 minutes, and the A and C at Utica Av is around 11 minutes.
Survey Results
NYC School Survey (2025) · 71 families responded (48% rate)
Programs & Activities
Admissions Demand
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
Discipline
NYSED Student & Educator Database
Economic Need & Special Populations
How to get in, step by step
High school (9th grade)
High school is one citywide application, made in 8th grade. Academy for Health Careers admits through one program, and each one has its own admissions method:
- Academy for Health CareersUnscreened
High school application
- Opened
- Tue, Oct 6
- Closes
- Fri, Dec 4
- Offers
- Wed, Mar 3
The DOE’s published dates.
- 1Apply on MySchools during the high school application, in 8th grade.
- 2Unscreened programs fill by random lottery among the families who rank them.
- 3Rank programs in true preference order — the match places your child in the highest-ranked one that offers a seat.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Academy for Health Careers a good school?
- On Motley, Academy for Health Careers earns an overall rating of 37/100 — the average of the school's four-year graduation rate, the share of its students scoring college-ready (70+) on the English Regents, and its Regents completion rate, shown out of 100.
- What grades does Academy for Health Careers serve?
- Academy for Health Careers serves grades 9 to 12.
- How do students get into Academy for Health Careers?
- Academy for Health Careers admits by application through a random lottery, with no academic screen.
- Is Academy for Health Careers public, charter, or private?
- Academy for Health Careers is a public school in NYC Community School District 17.
- What neighborhood is Academy for Health Careers in?
- Academy for Health Careers is in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn.