PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY

PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21. Current enrollment sits at 560 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY is one of 40 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21, a district that caters to 33,610 students overall.

Demographically, PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY shows that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 26% Asian, 22% White, 9% Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY logs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.6%; this one delivers 50.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate 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 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 721 BROOKLYN OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING CENTER, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY has fell 20%, going from 696 students in 2018 to 560 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 34% to 26% across the same window.

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