PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE)

PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) operates as a large K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20. Current enrollment sits at 1,119 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 153% larger than the state mean of about 443.

PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) is one of 48 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, a district that teaches 44,136 students overall.

Demographically, PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) records that 92% of students identify as Asian, making the school strongly Asian-majority; the rest consists of 5% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) reports 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) higher than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 40.3%; PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) posts 76.3%, +36.0 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows that 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%. PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

SCHOOL FOR FUTURE LEADERS (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 72.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 26%: 1,514 students in 2018 compared to 1,119 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.