PS 169 SUNSET PARK

Located at 4305 7TH AVE, in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 169 SUNSET PARK is a large primary school that instructs 755 students (grades K through 5), run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15. Enrollment runs roughly 70% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 25,925 students; PS 169 SUNSET PARK is among them.

On demographics, PS 169 SUNSET PARK lists that the largest single group is Asian, at 59% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 37% Hispanic, 3% White. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 169 SUNSET PARK tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.5%.

In the area at large, Kings County reports that median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 169 SUNSET PARK is one campus in the mix.

SCHOOL OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 169 SUNSET PARK. On composite proficiency, PS 169 SUNSET PARK comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 50%: 1,508 students in 2018 compared to 755 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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