IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE

IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE operates as a cozy intermediate school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. Current enrollment sits at 237 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 55% smaller than typical.

IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE is one of 34 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, a district that teaches 11,062 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE logs that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 14% White, 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kings County put the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 32%: 347 students in 2018 compared to 237 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 84% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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