PS 398 WALTER WEAVER

Located at 60 E 94TH ST, in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 398 WALTER WEAVER is a close-knit primary school that works with 212 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17. That puts it 52% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 49 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 (16,990 students total), PS 398 WALTER WEAVER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PS 398 WALTER WEAVER reports that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 26% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at PS 398 WALTER WEAVER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 398 WALTER WEAVER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 27.5%, a residual of -10.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kings County) records that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 398 WALTER WEAVER is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 398 WALTER WEAVER. On composite proficiency, PS 398 WALTER WEAVER comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. PS 398 WALTER WEAVER's enrollment has shrank 28% since 2018, when it stood at 294 (now 212). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 8% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

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