PS 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS

PS 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS is a small elementary campus in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13. The school works with 180 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 59% below the state mean of about 443.

Across the 42 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 (19,151 students total), PS 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PS 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 39% Black, 3% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. 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, On paper, PS 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS is one.

The closest other public school is PS 256 BENJAMIN BANNEKER, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS has contracted 13%, going from 208 students in 2018 to 180 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 55% to 39%. Class-load math has widened: from 8.6:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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