PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY

PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY is one of the modestly sized K-5 schools in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, with 266 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 16,990 students. PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY records that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% White, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.3%, the actual is 70.8%, a residual of +17.5 points.

Across the wider county, Kings County reports that 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. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

PS 398 WALTER WEAVER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 290 (now 266). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 58% to 49%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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