My Server block is not serving the static files

here my server block

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name codewithajay.codes www.codewithajay.codes;

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location /static/ {
        root /home/ajay/my_site/staticfiles;
    }

    location / {
        include proxy_params;
        proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gunicorn.sock;
    }
}

It is giving me this error:

404 Not Found nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)