PS 245

PS 245 operates as a tight-knit elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22. Current enrollment sits at 228 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 245 sits 49% below that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, which oversees 40 schools and 30,207 students, PS 245 is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 245 logs that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 43% Black, 4% White, 4% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at PS 245 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 245 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Across the wider county, 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 245 is one.

PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY 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 245 ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 311 students in 2018 compared to 228 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 54% to 43% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

On the community side, members of the PS 245 community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.