PS 181 BROOKFIELD

PS 181 BROOKFIELD is one of the small elementary-level communitys in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, with 340 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 23% below typical.

PS 181 BROOKFIELD is one of 46 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, a district that works with 21,817 students overall.

On demographics, PS 181 BROOKFIELD records that Black students make up the majority at 63%. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 4% multiracial, 4% Native American. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, PS 181 BROOKFIELD shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 181 BROOKFIELD 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 42.4%; PS 181 BROOKFIELD posts 67.6%, +25.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Queens County) shows that median household earnings sit near $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), PS 181 BROOKFIELD is one campus in the mix.

COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 181 BROOKFIELD. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 181 BROOKFIELD ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 181 BROOKFIELD's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 331 (now 340). Black enrollment moved from 80% to 63% across the same window.

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