The top reported proficiency rate is 100% in Social studies. The lowest is 35% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Ps 335 Granville T Woods
PS 335 Granville T. Woods sits on Rochester Avenue in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade within NYC Geographic District 16. The school is small even by the standards of New York City elementary schools, with an enrollment well under two hundred students spread across those grade levels. The student body is predominantly Black, with a substantial Hispanic population and very small numbers of students from other backgrounds. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in a high-need economic context. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs were not available in the records we reviewed.
The most telling numbers here come from the New York State Testing Program results across grades three through five. Math proficiency is genuinely strong in third grade, where the large majority of students tested at proficient or above. Fourth and fifth grade math proficiency is lower but still solid, with roughly two-thirds of students reaching that bar in each year. ELA follows a similar shape: strong in third grade, softer in fourth, and recovering somewhat in fifth. Science, tested at the fifth-grade level only, is the clear soft spot, with fewer than half of students scoring proficient. A parent may want to ask the school directly about how science instruction is structured and whether that trend is being addressed. Relative to districts in Kings County, the school's overall proficiency index sits in the top quartile of the schools for which comparison data was available, which is a meaningful position given the socioeconomic context.
No trend data across multiple years was available, so it is not possible from this record alone to say whether these results represent improvement, stability, or decline. Chronic absenteeism and graduation rate data are not applicable here: the school ends at fifth grade, so there is no graduation cohort to track, and attendance data was not reported in what we received.
Two changes at the district level are directly relevant to families. District 16 was in the first wave of New York City's NYC Reads rollout, meaning PS 335 has already been teaching reading through the Into Reading curriculum since the 2023-24 school year. This science-of-reading approach replaced the prior era of principal-chosen materials, and families entering kindergarten now will have that curriculum throughout their elementary years. Separately, a state law passed in 2022 is phasing in class size caps, with the smallest grades (K-3) eventually capped at twenty students and grades four through eight at twenty-three. High-need schools like those in District 16 are being targeted first, so families can expect that trend toward smaller classes to continue. The NYC Solves math curriculum standardization is also worth knowing about, though it primarily affects middle and high school grades that PS 335 does not serve.
The housing market around the school reflects Brooklyn's broader pressure. Home values in the zip code are well above the New York state median and far above national benchmarks, with year-over-year appreciation running at a pace meaningfully faster than the state average. Rents have also climbed. Brooklyn itself is highly walkable, well-served by subway lines, and densely developed, with civic anchors like the Brooklyn Public Library's branch network and Prospect Park within reasonable reach. Downtown Brooklyn and surrounding neighborhoods have seen sustained new residential construction, which continues to reshape the borough's housing landscape.
Program-specific information for PS 335 was not available in the data we reviewed, so the range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment programs, or special services beyond what the demographics suggest cannot be characterized here.
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