PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD

PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD operates as an one-room-style primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13. Current enrollment sits at 112 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD sits 75% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 42 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 (19,151 students total), PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD lists that Black students make up the majority at 63%. Beyond that, the school lists 29% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.5%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of -17.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD is one.

Nearest neighbor: URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD has fell 36%, going from 175 students in 2018 to 112 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 19% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 5.6:1 today.

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