PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL

PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL is one of the compact elementary campuss in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16, with 197 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 5,175 students. PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 19% Hispanic, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 26.4%, a residual of -14.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL is one.

EMBER CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL. On composite proficiency, PS 308 CLARA CARDWELL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 28%: 272 students in 2018 compared to 197 in 2025.

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