PS 112 LEFFERTS PARK

PS 112 LEFFERTS PARK is an elementary-level community of big scale in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, serveing 740 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 67% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

PS 112 LEFFERTS PARK is one of 48 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, a district that hosts 44,136 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 112 LEFFERTS PARK shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 32% Asian, 26% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 112 LEFFERTS PARK performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 112 LEFFERTS PARK is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

JHS 227 EDWARD B SHALLOW is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 112 LEFFERTS PARK ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.6%.

PS 112 LEFFERTS PARK operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 684 students in 2018 compared to 740 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 40% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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