PS 58 CARROLL (THE)

PS 58 CARROLL (THE), a roomy elementary campus in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15, works with 753 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 70% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 51 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 (25,925 students total), PS 58 CARROLL (THE) accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PS 58 CARROLL (THE) lists that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 38% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, PS 58 CARROLL (THE) lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 11% of students at PS 58 CARROLL (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 58 CARROLL (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.0%, the actual is 79.8%, a residual of +8.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 58 CARROLL (THE) is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

PS 32 SAMUEL MILLS SPROLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 58 CARROLL (THE) comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 58 CARROLL (THE) has decreased 24%, going from 988 students in 2018 to 753 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 74% to 67%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.