PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH

PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH operates as a modestly sized elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14. Current enrollment sits at 197 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 56% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH is one of 38 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14, a district that works with 15,288 students overall.

Demographically, PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH shows that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 10% Black, 7% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.7%; this one delivers 38.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 61.3%.

PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 26%: 267 students in 2018 compared to 197 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 4% to 10% across the same window.

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