PS 179 KENSINGTON

Set in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 179 KENSINGTON is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20. It caters to 660 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 49% bigger than typical.

PS 179 KENSINGTON is one of 48 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, a district that enrolls 44,136 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PS 179 KENSINGTON logs that Asian students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 12% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, PS 179 KENSINGTON has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 179 KENSINGTON higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at PS 179 KENSINGTON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 179 KENSINGTON performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Around the school, 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 179 KENSINGTON is one.

Nearest neighbor: JHS 62 DITMAS, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 179 KENSINGTON comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 25%: 885 students in 2018 compared to 660 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 55% to 65% across the same window.

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