PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER

PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER operates as a tight-knit K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. Current enrollment sits at 307 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 31% leaner than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 11,062 students. PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER shows that Black students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic, 7% White, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 94% of students at PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Kings County's rate of about 79%.

With demographic context factored in, PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Kings County shows 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 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is EAST FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EFACS), roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER has declined 47%, going from 575 students in 2018 to 307 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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