PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE

Located at 557 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE is a tight-knit elementary campus that hosts 331 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 53 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 (18,619 students total), PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE records that Black students make up the majority at 60%; the rest breaks down as 34% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of +11.9 points.

In the area at large, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE is one campus in the mix.

ACHIEVEMENT FIRST EAST NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.

PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE has ticked down 33%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 331 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 29% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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