PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL

PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL, a sprawling elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, works with 1,209 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 173% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 comprises 48 schools with combined enrollment of 44,136 students; PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL logs that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 38% Asian, 19% Hispanic. Compared to Kings County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL lists 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 56.4%, a residual of +14.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 128 BENSONHURST, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 61.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 1,315 students in 2018 compared to 1,209 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 43% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.