PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB

PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB operates as a tiny elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13. Current enrollment sits at 133 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 70% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 19,151 students; PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% Black, 29% White, 6% Asian, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Kings County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.0%; PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB posts 15.8%, -38.2 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household earnings sit near $80,263, 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 270 JOHANN DEKALB is one.

Nearest neighbor: COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB's enrollment has increased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 115 (now 133). The Black share of enrollment decreased from 70% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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