Summary:
Five high schools in ZIP code 40218 serve grades 6–12, with Newcomer Academy, Minor Daniels Academy, Liberty High, and Brooklawn serving grades 6–12 and Boys & Girls Haven serving grades 7–12; together they enroll 910 students. Most other school proficiency figures are state-suppressed, so the available results cannot rank all five schools academically. Attendance is the clearest area-wide concern: four schools have chronic absenteeism above the state rate, while Brooklawn is the exception.
Among reported 2025–2026 test results, Liberty has the highest known 10th-grade math proficiency, at 13%, 3 points above Newcomer’s 10%; both are below the Jefferson County rate of 29% and the state’s 40%. Newcomer has the lowest known results in the available same-grade comparisons: its 10th-grade reading proficiency is 3%, 33 points below the district and 46 below the state, and its 8th-grade writing result is 5%, 27 and 43 points below. For attendance, Brooklawn is the standout at 23%, about 1 point below the state rate. Minor Daniels has the highest rate at 86%, followed by Liberty at 84%; Newcomer is at 55% and Boys & Girls Haven at 50%.
SchoolDigger’s available ranking histories are generally low and mostly trend downward, but cover different years: Newcomer’s percentile fell from 1 to 0 between 2022–2023 and 2025–2026, while Brooklawn’s went from 8 to 4 between 2017–2018 and 2020–2021. School size and staffing also differ: Liberty enrolls 100 students and has a student–teacher ratio of 3.5, while Brooklawn enrolls 28 and has a ratio of 3.9. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 57% at Brooklawn to 80% at Minor Daniels; those figures are context, not an explanation for school results. Reported 2023–2024 graduation rates range from 11% at Minor Daniels to 34% at Newcomer, with Liberty at 14%.
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