PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON

PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32, hosting 428 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON is one of 27 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32, a district that hosts 8,794 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON reports that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 11% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.8%; this one delivers 34.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON is one.

The closest other public school is WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 34.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 26%: 581 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 93% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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