PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN

PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, with 661 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN sits 49% bigger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 18,619 students. PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN reports that the largest single group is Asian, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 23% Hispanic, 16% Black. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.9%; this one delivers 45.2%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is PS 214 MICHAEL FRIEDSAM, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN. On composite proficiency, PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.

PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 800 (now 661). Asian enrollment moved from 40% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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