PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY

PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20. The school works with 491 students in grades pre-K through 5.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 comprises 48 schools with combined enrollment of 44,136 students; PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY is among them.

In terms of who attends, PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY records that the largest single group is Asian at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 14% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 42.0%; PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY posts 71.1%, +29.1 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Kings County put the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

JHS 223 MONTAUK (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.4%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY has fell 30%, going from 698 students in 2018 to 491 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 42% to 37%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.