PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL

PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL is one of the rural-scale elementary-level communitys in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23, with 145 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL sits 67% smaller than that benchmark.

PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL is one of 28 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23, a district that caters to 7,257 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL lists that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 28% Hispanic, 6% White, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,263, 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 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL. On composite proficiency, PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL's enrollment has decreased 52% since 2018, when it stood at 304 (now 145). The Black share of enrollment decreased from 75% to 59% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

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