P.S. 132 The Conselyea School

The school's current proficiency rates — 79.7% in ELA and 78.6% in math — are comfortably above the district averages of 62.4% and 59.5%, respectively, and its overall quality review score of 3.17 out of 4 also clears the district average of 2.44. The trend story is even more encouraging: after dipping in 2017 (when ELA fell to 52.7% and math to 55%), the school has climbed almost every year since, with particularly strong gains between 2022 and 2025. Grade 5 performance is the standout, with 89.6% ELA proficiency and 91.4% in math, while grades 3 and 4 still sit solidly above district norms.

The day-to-day feel here reads as calm and relationship-driven. Teachers report strong instruction quality (92%), trust in school leadership (94%), and a very high sense of safety (97%), while parents give the school 97% marks for trust in teachers and 95% for trust in the principal — and an unusually high 100% rating on strong relationships. Zero suspensions across three consecutive school years is striking and suggests a genuinely restorative approach to behavior. The thing parents should know about is chronic absenteeism at 75.6%, with sharp racial gaps: only 51.7% of Black students and 63.4% of Hispanic students are chronically absent compared to 87.6% of White and 96.7% of Asian students. Average daily attendance is 92.8%, above the district average of 88.9%, so it isn't a daily-attendance problem so much as a tail of students missing large stretches of school.

The student body is 46% White, 30% Hispanic, 14% Black, 8% Asian, and 2% multiracial — an unusually White-majority makeup for a New York City public school and a reflection of how gentrification has shaped East Williamsburg over the past decade. The school draws from a mix of longtime neighborhood families and newer arrivals priced into the area's now-million-dollar housing market. About 14% of students have IEPs and the economic need index sits at 48.8, indicating a middle-of-the-road economic profile rather than a high-need one.

East Williamsburg is a Brooklyn neighborhood in transition, where the median household income is around $81,788 and 44.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, but the poverty rate still runs at 24.3% and only 9.2% of households include children — the latter being a reminder that this is still more of an adult-skewing neighborhood than a family-dense one despite its elementary schools. The median home value north of $1 million reflects how much the area has been bid up in recent years, and homeownership sits at just 12.5%, meaning most families in the zone are renters.

Three L-train stops serve the school within a few minutes' walk: Graham Av (about 2 minutes), Lorimer St (about 5 minutes), and Grand St (about 7 minutes).