PS 153 HOMECREST

As a medium-sized primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 153 HOMECREST works with 509 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 33,610 students; PS 153 HOMECREST is among them.

On the student-mix side, PS 153 HOMECREST records that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 30% Hispanic, 25% Asian, 3% Black, 2% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 153 HOMECREST sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.9%; this one delivers 42.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $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 PS 153 HOMECREST is one.

PS 255 BARBARA REING SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 153 HOMECREST ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.6%.

PS 153 HOMECREST operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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