PS 224 HALE A WOODRUFF

PS 224 HALE A WOODRUFF is an elementary school of small scale in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, caters to 269 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 443.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, which oversees 53 schools and 18,619 students, PS 224 HALE A WOODRUFF is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PS 224 HALE A WOODRUFF records that 57% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at PS 224 HALE A WOODRUFF qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 224 HALE A WOODRUFF performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of -8.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs that 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. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 224 HALE A WOODRUFF is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BROOKLYN SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 224 HALE A WOODRUFF comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 35%: 415 students in 2018 compared to 269 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 64% to 57% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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