PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE)

PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE) operates as a moderately sized elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20. Current enrollment sits at 592 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE) sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 comprises 48 schools with combined enrollment of 44,136 students; PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE) is among them.

On the student-mix side, PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE) shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 24% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE) has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE) tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE) is one campus in the mix.

PS 134 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE). On composite proficiency, PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE) comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE)'s enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 592). Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE) community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.