PS/IS 104 FORT HAMILTON SCHOOL (THE)

PS/IS 104 FORT HAMILTON SCHOOL (THE) is a heavily attended K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20. The school instructs 1,024 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 131% bigger than typical.

PS/IS 104 FORT HAMILTON SCHOOL (THE) is one of 48 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, a district that caters to 44,136 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PS/IS 104 FORT HAMILTON SCHOOL (THE) reports that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 22% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Kings County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, PS/IS 104 FORT HAMILTON SCHOOL (THE) logs 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Kings County's rate of about 79%.

After controlling for student poverty, PS/IS 104 FORT HAMILTON SCHOOL (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of +14.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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/IS 104 FORT HAMILTON SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the mix.

PS 264 BAY RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS/IS 104 FORT HAMILTON SCHOOL (THE) comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS/IS 104 FORT HAMILTON SCHOOL (THE)'s enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,264 (now 1,024). Over the same period, the White share declined from 46% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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