29, but also in the largely working-class neighborhoods of Red Hook and Gowanus, where parents felt excluded from the process. The process tipped off debates not only in Brownstone Brooklyn’s predominantly white schools of Carroll Gardens’ P.S. 32 in the Gowanus/Carroll Gardens area triggered the city to redraw the boundaries of several area elementary schools. Changing admissions priorities is one way the city hopes to address its status as one of the nation’s most segregated school systems.Īmong the dozen schools joining the“diversity in admissions” program for the 2022-23 school year are five in the northern corner of Brooklyn’s District 15, where an annex built for P.S. But there is some amount of choice, and families have until Jan. Where students live generally determines where they attend kindergarten. Research shows that students benefit academically as well as socially when their classes are racially and socioeconomically diverse. The program, which launched in 2015 with seven elementary schools, will expand to 31 elementary schools citywide next year and all of the schools in Manhattan’s Lower East Side/East Village District 1. The education department’s “diversity in admissions” program gives priority to students from low-income families, English language learners, those living in temporary housing or in the child welfare system. As kindergarten applications opened Wednesday, a group of Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Manhattan neighborhood schools - some of which are among the city’s most coveted - are trying to increase the diversity of their student bodies.
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