P.S. /I.S. 384 Frances E. Carter

Both ELA (33.8%) and math (28.4%) proficiency land well below the District 32 averages of roughly 46% and 43% — students here are catching up, not leading. The good news is the 2025 jump: ELA climbed about 8 percentage points and math about 3.5 points from 2024, marking the highest ELA mark in the eight-year span shown and the highest math mark since the post-pandemic recovery began. Scores are uneven across grades — sixth graders outperform eighth graders in math (41.7% vs. 11.5%), suggesting either cohort effects or a dip in engagement as students approach the Regents years. The trajectory is clearly upward, but the school is starting from a low base.

The day-to-day feel parents describe is unusually warm: 100% of surveyed families say the school builds strong relationships, and trust in both the principal and individual teachers sits at 97% — numbers that beat most Brooklyn schools. Teachers report safety at 94% and rate instruction quality at 83%, though teacher-principal trust is the soft spot at 79%. Attendance is the real head-scratcher — the daily attendance rate is roughly in line with the district at 90.9%, but chronic absenteeism is at 67.9%, meaning about two out of three students miss enough school to be flagged. Discipline is light overall (2% suspension rate, only 5 suspensions last year), though suspensions did tick up from 1 to 5 over the prior year.

The student body is 82% Hispanic and 17% Black, with small Asian, white, and multiracial slices — a demographic mirror of the surrounding neighborhood, where the census shows a working-class, predominantly renter population earning a median of around $67,000. The economic need index of 88.9 signals a high share of students from low-income households, and 23% have IEPs. The diversity index of 30% reflects concentration rather than variety — this is a school serving a fairly specific community rather than a broad cross-section of the city. Families who attend tend to be deeply rooted in Bushwick, and that shows up in the trust numbers.

Eastern Bushwick is a working-class, predominantly Latinx neighborhood where homeownership is rare (about 20%) and roughly a quarter of residents live below the poverty line. The share of households with children is on the lower side at 11.5%, meaning many blocks here are populated by young adults and renters rather than families — which can make finding peer friendships for kids a little harder. About 31.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree, and median home values sit just under $950,000, reflecting the area's rapid price changes even as incomes haven't fully caught up. The L train is the neighborhood's spine.

The L is genuinely at the doorstep — Wilson Av (L) is about a 2-minute walk, Halsey St (L) about 8 minutes, and Bushwick Av–Aberdeen St (L) about 10 minutes, making this one of the easier commutes in the borough for families relying on public transit.