PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE)

PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE) is a primary school of mid-sized scale in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21, educateing 514 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 40 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (33,610 students total), PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE) accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE) reports that Black students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 21.4%, a residual of -18.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $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%. PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE) is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

PS 329 SURFSIDE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE). On composite proficiency, PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE) comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE)'s enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 667 (now 514). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 33% to 38% over that span.

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