PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN

PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14, with 431 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 38 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 (15,288 students total), PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 21% Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 92% 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 somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 54.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN's enrollment has shrank 31% since 2018, when it stood at 621 (now 431). Class-load math has tightened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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