Just as overcrowding eases in Sunset Park, new school seats are set to open
When it was time for Joey Zhang’s son to start kindergarten, there was no room for him at the Sunset Park school near their home.
Now he’s headed to middle school, and the dynamic in Sunset Park has changed. Once bursting with overcrowded classrooms, parents and educators say the neighborhood is seeing a steady decline in students — just as a slew of new school seats are set to open.
District 15, which covers a large swath of the neighborhood in southwest Brooklyn is expected to kick off a potentially contentious process of changing attendance zones for the area’s schools. Roughly 1,000 new school seats are expected to be added between 2022 and 2024.