PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE)

PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE), a sprawling primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21, serves 1,049 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 137% larger than typical.

Across the 40 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (33,610 students total), PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE) accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE) logs that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 25% Hispanic, 17% Asian. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 38% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Kings County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.9%; this one delivers 44.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE) is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 771, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE). On composite proficiency, PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE) comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE) has increased 5%, going from 997 students in 2018 to 1,049 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 43% to 54% across the same window.

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