MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL

MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL is a close-knit 6-8 campus in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17. The school works with 286 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 46% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, which oversees 49 schools and 16,990 students, MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL records that the largest single group is Black, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 4% Native American. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 89% of students at MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 46.3%, a residual of +4.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is PS 161 CROWN (THE), roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.8%.

MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL's enrollment has edged down 60% since 2018, when it stood at 723 (now 286). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 87% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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