PS 208 ELSA EBELING

PS 208 ELSA EBELING operates as a cozy primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. Current enrollment sits at 297 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 33% below typical.

Across the 34 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 (11,062 students total), PS 208 ELSA EBELING accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 208 ELSA EBELING logs that Black students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder comes out to 8% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 2% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 208 ELSA EBELING sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 43.4%; actual is 68.0%, +24.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kings County put the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 208 ELSA EBELING is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IVY HILL PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 208 ELSA EBELING comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 22%: 383 students in 2018 compared to 297 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 91% to 79% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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