 The school had 38 full-time teachers, two part-time teachers and four full-time counselors.The 2017–2018 tuition was $10,050, and nearly 60% of all students were awarded financial aid or scholarships, with an average aid amount of $3,200.In 1851, the De La Salle Christian Brothers assumed direction of the boys' section of what was then known as the St. James School on Jay Street in Brooklyn, the parochial school of St. James' Church.