PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL

PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL, a medium-sized elementary campus in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18, teaches 560 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% above the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 11,062 students. PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 12% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% Native American. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs that median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL is one.

IS 68 ISAAC BILDERSEE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 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 276 LOUIS MARSHALL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 615 students in 2018 compared to 560 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 88% to 73% across the same window.

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