PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL

PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21, educates 508 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 40 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (33,610 students total), PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 21% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 38% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL records 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.6%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs 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%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL is one.

EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.5%.

PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 551 students in 2018 compared to 508 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.