PS 213 NEW LOTS

As a modestly sized primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 213 NEW LOTS educates 199 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 55% smaller than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 18,619 students; PS 213 NEW LOTS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 213 NEW LOTS reports that Black students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 10% White, 10% Asian, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 213 NEW LOTS tighter than the state norm the norm. About 93% 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 noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 213 NEW LOTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 29.9%, a residual of -10.7 points.

In the broader 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. PS 213 NEW LOTS is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is COLLEGIATE ACADEMY-MATH-PERSONAL AWA, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 213 NEW LOTS. On composite proficiency, PS 213 NEW LOTS comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. PS 213 NEW LOTS's enrollment has contracted 33% since 2018, when it stood at 295 (now 199). Black enrollment moved from 69% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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