1
What's one thing PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
706
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22·NCES 360015302507
PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY
330 RUGBY RD, BROOKLYN, NY 11226 · (718) 282-5254 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL706 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 60% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
474 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 72 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (100).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
61.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 55.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY
PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY's state test result (53.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY this school | 706 | 67.1% | 53.5% |
| PS 45 JOHN TYLER STATEN ISLAND | 751 | 63.5% | 52.7% |
| PS 33 CHELSEA PREP NEW YORK | 606 | 59.9% | 60.7% |
| PS 17 HENRY DAVID THOREAU LONG ISLAND CITY | 610 | 65.4% | 57.4% |
| OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL ASTORIA | 681 | 61.2% | 65.6% |
| PS 232 LINDENWOOD HOWARD BEACH | 831 | 67.6% | 48.4% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #1,023 of 2,335 | #156 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,178 of 2,342 ▼ 71 | #181 of 290 ▼ 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #891 of 2,343 ▼ 184 | #159 of 290 ▼ 48 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 706 | #262 of 2,585 | #59 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #742 of 2,338 | #66 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.3% | #44 of 2,388 | #4 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.1% | #1,028 of 2,534 | #246 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.0% | #311 of 1,757 | #74 of 225 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
706
-125 (-15%) vs 2020
-33% since 2010-11, when it was 1,060
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 15.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 706 | 65.4 | 10.8:1 | 67% (474) |
| 2023-24 | 708 | 63.1 | 11.2:1 | 68% (481) |
| 2022-23 | 729 | 53.7 | 13.6:1 | 70% (510) |
| 2020-21 | 831 | 55 | 15.1:1 | 77% (643) |
| 2017-18 | 995 | 65 | 15.3:1 | 80% (800) |
| 2015-16 | 976 | 65 | 15.0:1 | 82% (797) |
| 2010-11 | 1,060 | 65 | 16.3:1 | 86% (909) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY.
About PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY
PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY is an elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, according to federal school records. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 706 students. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 59% above that.
PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY is run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, whose 40 schools enroll 30,207 students.
Federal enrollment data show Hispanic students as the largest group at PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY, at 38%. Other reported shares: 21% White, 19% Black, 13% Asian, and 8% multiracial. Kings County's residents are about 19% Hispanic, 19 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 75%, meaning two students picked at random have a 75% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its teaching staff equals 65.4 full-time positions, a ratio of 10.8:1. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 67%. The gap from the 79% average for public schools in Kings County is 12 points.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In New York, PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 53.5% actual against a predicted 50.3%.
In Kings County (population about 2,631,580), the median household income is $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. There are 583 public schools in Kings County, enrolling about 291,697 students in all.
Nearest public school: PS 245, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY ranks 6th of 9 on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 15% from its 2020-21 level of 831. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.1:1 in 2020-21, and 10.8:1 in 2024-25.
Discussions about PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMBElementary · 1,508 students
- JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAMMiddle · 1,447 students
- PS 197 KINGS HIGHWAY ACADEMY (THE)Elementary · 1,074 students
- LEON M GOLDSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCESHigh · 952 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- PS 2450.3 mi · 228
- JHS 62 DITMAS0.4 mi · 857
- PS 8890.4 mi · 423
- MS 8900.4 mi · 336
- PS 217 COLONEL DAVID MARCUS SCHOOL0.5 mi · 901
- PS 249 CATON (THE)0.6 mi · 663
Frequently asked questions
About PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTYHow large is PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY?
PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY enrolls approximately 706 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY serve?
PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY?
Approximately 10.8:1 students per teacher at PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY.
How diverse is PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY?
PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY reports a student body of 21% White, 38% Hispanic, 19% Black, 13% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY in?
PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.