PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER

PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER, a small K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32, instructs 209 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32 runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 8,794 students. PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.0%.

In the surrounding community, Kings County reports that median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER is one.

ACHIEVEMENT FIRST NORTH BROOKLYN PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 34%: 315 students in 2018 compared to 209 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 79% to 90%.

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