PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOL

PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOL operates as a substantial primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. Current enrollment sits at 854 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 93% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 11,062 students; PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 11% Hispanic, 9% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 54.1%, a residual of +8.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

HIGH SCHOOL FOR INNOVATION IN ADVERTISING AND MEDIA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 46.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 967 students in 2018 compared to 854 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 82% to 75%.

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