PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE

PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE operates as a tiny elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17. Current enrollment sits at 162 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE sits 63% below that benchmark.

PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE is one of 49 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, a district that hosts 16,990 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.4%; this one delivers 48.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows that median household income runs about $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE is one campus in the mix.

NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL 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 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. On composite proficiency, PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE's enrollment has ticked down 47% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 162). Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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