PS 123 SUYDAM

PS 123 SUYDAM is a moderately sized elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32. The school works with 446 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PS 123 SUYDAM is one of 27 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32, a district that works with 8,794 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PS 123 SUYDAM reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Other groups include 5% Black, 2% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 123 SUYDAM tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 95% of students at PS 123 SUYDAM qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 123 SUYDAM performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of -7.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 123 SUYDAM is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JHS 162 WILLOUGHBY (THE), roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 123 SUYDAM. On composite proficiency, PS 123 SUYDAM comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 123 SUYDAM's enrollment has fell 28% since 2018, when it stood at 620 (now 446). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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