PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH

PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH is one of the modestly sized elementary-level communitys in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, with 293 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH sits 34% below that benchmark.

PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH is one of 40 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, a district that works with 30,207 students overall.

On demographics, PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 38% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% 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 meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 67.2%, a residual of +14.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 44.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH's enrollment has fell 30% since 2018, when it stood at 418 (now 293). The White share of enrollment decreased from 71% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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