PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE)

PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE), an intimate primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16, caters to 194 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 5,175 students; PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) is among them.

On demographics, PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) reports that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 42% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of -0.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate 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 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) is one.

UNCOMMON EXCELLENCE GIRLS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 204 students in 2018 compared to 194 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 28% to 42%.

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