PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL

PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is an intimate elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22. The school hosts 374 students in grades K through 5.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, which oversees 40 schools and 30,207 students, PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 66%. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

With demographic context factored in, PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.0%; this one delivers 40.3%.

In the area at large, Kings County reports that median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL has declined 11%, going from 421 students in 2018 to 374 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 77% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.