PS 136 ROY WILKINS

As a low-enrollment elementary campus in SAINT ALBANS, New York, PS 136 ROY WILKINS instructs 336 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 136 ROY WILKINS sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 46 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 (21,817 students total), PS 136 ROY WILKINS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, PS 136 ROY WILKINS shows that Black students make up the majority at 75%; the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 136 ROY WILKINS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Around the school, Queens County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. PS 136 ROY WILKINS is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

Nearest neighbor: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HS-FIN INFO TECH, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 136 ROY WILKINS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 136 ROY WILKINS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 136 ROY WILKINS has decreased 45%, going from 615 students in 2018 to 336 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 85% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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