Overview

Brooklyn Technical High School is one of New York City's specialized high schools, admitting students citywide via the SHSAT exam, the same admissions process covered in this directory's earlier Stuyvesant High School profile. It's one of the largest public high schools in the country by enrollment, located in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Academics

No independently verified New York state assessment data (via the NYSED Data Site) was located for this profile; check the New York State Education Department's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

Fort Greene is a Brooklyn neighborhood known for its brownstones, arts institutions, and Fort Greene Park, near several major transit hubs including Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr.

Crime & safety

Fort Greene shows a mix of grades that land in similar territory across sources but not identical ones: a C grade for violent crime specifically (44th percentile) and a B grade for overall crime (65th percentile) from one provider; a separate source citing NYPD data directly describes Fort Greene as "safer than 44% of Brooklyn neighborhoods" (a citywide-borough comparison, not a national one) with crime up 15% year-over-year; a third source's neighborhood-comparison analysis ranked the area 64th safest and 55th for violent crime specifically among tracked NYC neighborhoods, in reporting dated to 2010-2011 figures that are now well out of date. One source notes crime is broadly lower in north Brooklyn (including Fort Greene) than south Brooklyn, though with named exceptions.

One of the sources found for this profile cites crime rankings from 2010-2011 data -- more than a decade old -- presented on a page that otherwise reads as current. We're flagging that explicitly rather than treating it as describing today's Fort Greene; only the more recent NYPD-sourced and CrimeGrade figures should be read as current.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. Given the mix of current and outdated sources found for this neighborhood, we're not showing a rating for this profile. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. NCES Common Core of Data, School Search -- Brooklyn Technical High School, 2024-25 school year.
  2. CrimeGrade.org, Fort Greene overall, violent, and property crime analyses, 2025.
  3. DwellCheck.io, "Is Fort Greene Safe?," citing 2025 NYPD data.
  4. FreedomForAllAmericans.org, "13 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in New York 2026," citing Furman Center and Niche data (includes 2010-2011 sourced rankings, flagged as outdated above).
  5. DoorProfit.com, Fort Greene crime map, 2026.
  6. NYDefenseCounsel.com, "Brooklyn, NY Crime Rate — 2026 Guide," February 2026.