PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER

PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER is an elementary school of low-enrollment scale in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, educateing 280 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 16,990 students; PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER is among them.

On the student-mix side, PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER records that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.6%; this one delivers 54.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER is one.

Nearest neighbor: ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER. On composite proficiency, PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 29%: 394 students in 2018 compared to 280 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 13% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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