SUNSET SCHOOL OF CULTURAL LEARNING

SUNSET SCHOOL OF CULTURAL LEARNING is a small K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20. The school hosts 266 students in grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 40% smaller than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 runs 48 schools in total, collectively educating 44,136 students. SUNSET SCHOOL OF CULTURAL LEARNING is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SUNSET SCHOOL OF CULTURAL LEARNING lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%; the rest reads as 13% Asian, 9% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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, SUNSET SCHOOL OF CULTURAL LEARNING performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.6%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of +15.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), SUNSET SCHOOL OF CULTURAL LEARNING is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MS 936 ARTS OFF 3RD, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUNSET SCHOOL OF CULTURAL LEARNING ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

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