EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a minimally staffed 6-8 campus in BROOKLYN, New York, EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL works with 153 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17. Enrollment runs roughly 71% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 49 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, a district that instructs 16,990 students overall.

In terms of who attends, EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 69% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 21% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.7%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kings County) reports that median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PS 375 JACKIE ROBINSON SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 165 students in 2018 compared to 153 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 60% to 69%. Class-load math has tightened: from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 7.2:1 in 2025.

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