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PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 18 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG
Located at 3117 AVE W, in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that caters to 482 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, which oversees 40 schools and 30,207 students, PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG records that 35% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 14% Pacific Islander, 13% White, 4% Asian.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 94% of students at PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Kings County's rate of about 79%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -0.9 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).
PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 50.5%.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 583 students in 2018 compared to 482 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 20% to 31% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.
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