Downtown Brooklyn School Solutions continues to push for more educational options in Downtown Brooklyn since the group started earlier this year. They’ve written an open letter to developers of sites in the neighborhood encouraging them to include a school as part of their future projects, and identified a few locations where developers could build a school in exchange for concessions from the city. They’ve also crunched some numbers to find that 2,651 new elementary school-aged children will be living in Downtown Brooklyn by 2018 but as of 2011, there were only 396 available seats in the existing schools that serve the neighborhood which spans Districts 13 and 15. An urban planner recently reported similar findings to Community Board Two. Since Downtown Brooklyn School Solutions started, a charter school announced that it was opening at 80 Willoughby Street and will accommodate as many as 300 students.

Families Push for Elementary School Downtown [Brownstoner]

Map of Downtown Brooklyn developments via DBSS


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  1. Agree totally with LWSabre98. Plenty of parents white, black, brown or other have tried to make 38 a good school, but the principal has thwarted all their efforts. For many It’s in for pre-k and then out to the other District 15 choices. After 7 years of public school, the parents can only do so much if the principal won’t budge. Ramirez can get an A from the corporate testing conglomerate (she was a Joel Klein acolyte) but the opinions of parents and teachers are another thing. When our child was there, many teachers told us to look for another school as soon as we could. We did and got into a choice school, but just because we knew how to navigate the system. Not many parents have the time, energy or knowledge how to get their kid into a good public school.

    That said, I can see the shortage being a real problem for District 13 and 15. Kindergarten entry has been tough for many people.

  2. I wish there was a real advocacy group working with reality, and worrying about the shortage of placements for middle school in downtown Brooklyn. That would be a lot more productive for all residents.

    So who is running “Downtown Brooklyn School Solutions?”

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