PS 65

PS 65 is a medium-sized K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19. The school serves 512 students in grades pre-K through 5.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 18,619 students. PS 65 is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PS 65 records that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 8% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Native American, 3% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, PS 65 logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at PS 65 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PS 65 ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 42.0%; PS 65 posts 66.0%, +24.0 points above that line.

In the broader community, 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 roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 65 is one campus in the mix.

PS 7 ABRAHAM LINCOLN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 65. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 65 at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 65 has edged down 16%, going from 611 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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