PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY

As a heavily attended primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY serves 706 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 59% bigger than typical.

Across the 40 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 (30,207 students total), PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 21% White, 19% Black, 13% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Kings County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of +3.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Kings County) records that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY is one campus in the mix.

PS 245 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 995 students in 2018 compared to 706 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 11% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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