PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE

PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE is a primary school of micro-enrollment scale in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, caters to 157 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 65% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 49 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 (16,990 students total), PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE shows that Black students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 31% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 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 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE is one.

Nearest neighbor: MS 246 WALT WHITMAN, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 61%: 399 students in 2018 compared to 157 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

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