PS 48 MAPLETON

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 48 MAPLETON educates 487 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20.

PS 48 MAPLETON is one of 48 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, a district that works with 44,136 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PS 48 MAPLETON reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Asian, 21% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, PS 48 MAPLETON shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 48 MAPLETON tighter than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 48 MAPLETON sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.8%; this one delivers 51.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Kings County shows median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 48 MAPLETON is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 48 MAPLETON. On composite proficiency, PS 48 MAPLETON comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 29% to 43% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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