BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of the small elementary schools in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16, with 200 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL sits 55% smaller than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16, which oversees 23 schools and 5,175 students, BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL records that 42% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 12% White, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.8%; this one comes in at 29.7%, -20.1 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 25 EUBIE BLAKE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL has ticked down 36%, going from 311 students in 2018 to 200 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 62% to 42%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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