PS 53

As a low-enrollment multi-level school in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 53 enrolls 406 students from grades K through 12, one of the schools within NYC SPECIAL SCHOOLS - DISTRICT 75. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 544.

PS 53 is one of 60 schools operated by NYC SPECIAL SCHOOLS - DISTRICT 75, a district that educates 27,533 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PS 53 reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 29% Black, 16% Asian, 9% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.7:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Kings County shows 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. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 53 is one campus in the mix.

JHS 88 PETER ROUGET is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

PS 53 operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 471 students in 2018 compared to 406 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 37% to 29% over that span.

On allk12, the feed for PS 53 typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.