PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS

Located at 265 WARWICK ST, in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS is a mid-tier K-5 school that hosts 447 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 18,619 students. PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.5:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 26.4%, a residual of -14.5 points.

In the area at large, 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%. PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

Nearest neighbor: ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS has changed only slightly, going from 458 students in 2018 to 447 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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