PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY

As a close-knit elementary campus in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY instructs 313 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 7,257 students. PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY logs that the largest single group is Black, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 34% Hispanic, 3% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 376 (now 313). Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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