New elementary school to open in Bensonhurst
Official says PS 768 will take burden off nearby crowded schools
The Bensonhurst-Dyker Heights area, a swatch of southwest Brooklyn that large numbers of families with young children and been flocking to in recent years, is getting a new school.
The Department of Education (DOE) is renting a two-story building on 15th Avenue in Bensonhurst from the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and is currently renovating the site for use as an early childhood school (for kindergarten and first grade students) to open in September of 2015, officials said.
The new school, to be called P.S. 768, is located at 7301 15th Ave., the former site of Our Lady of Guadalupe School. Our Lady of Guadalupe, or OLG as it’s known to local residents, formerly occupied two buildings. It will still maintain a school out of its main building on 73rd Street.
Laurie Windsor, president of the District 20 Community Education Council (CEC), said P.S. 768 will serve as an annex to P.S. 112, an elementary school located two blocks away, at 7115 15th Ave. P.S. 112 has become overcrowded in recent years, according to Windsor. “The younger grades will go into the new building,” she told the Brooklyn Eagle in a recent interview.