PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY

PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY is an elementary campus of minimally staffed scale in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, works with 120 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 73% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 42 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 (19,151 students total), PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY records that 66% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 23% Hispanic, 9% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.5%; actual is 23.4%, a gap of -19.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $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. PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

UNITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN 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 44 MARCUS GARVEY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 138 students in 2018 compared to 120 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 84% to 66%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.