PS 506 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)

PS 506 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is an elementary-level community of tight-knit scale in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, instructing 334 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

PS 506 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is one of 48 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, a district that caters to 44,136 students overall.

On demographics, PS 506 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Asian, 5% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 506 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.0%; this one delivers 37.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs that median household earnings sit near $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 506 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 503 SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY (THE), roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 506 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY (THE) comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 506 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)'s enrollment has contracted 58% since 2018, when it stood at 804 (now 334). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.