PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)

PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) is one of the micro-enrollment elementary-level communitys in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, with 148 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% below the state mean of about 443.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, which oversees 49 schools and 16,990 students, PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) reports that Black students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Hispanic. 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, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) 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.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.5%.

Around the school, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

Nearest neighbor: NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 44%: 262 students in 2018 compared to 148 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 11% to 22%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.