JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY

JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY is one of the sprawling junior highs in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, with 1,780 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 235% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Across the 48 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 (44,136 students total), JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY shows that the largest single group is Asian, at 55% of enrollment; the rest reads as 21% White, 20% Hispanic. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY lists 121 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 44.7%; this one delivers 78.7%, a residual of +34.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs that median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY is one.

The closest other public school is PS 127 MCKINLEY PARK, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 76.2%.

JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY has shrank 4%, going from 1,858 students in 2018 to 1,780 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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