PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY

PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of the modestly sized intermediate schools in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, with 248 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 531.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 16,990 students. PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment; the rest looks like 18% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.6%; this one delivers 43.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

PS 141 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.3%.

PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. PARKSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY's enrollment has fell 50% since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 248). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 77% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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