Public school / Primary
Ps 247
Brooklyn, New York
- NCES ID
- 360015102761
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ps 247 is a public primary school in Brooklyn, New York, run by New York City Geographic District #20. It enrols 710 students — the 18737th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
710
Teachers
52.0
Students per teacher
13.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
70.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within New York City Geographic District #20
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Fort Hamilton High School3,925 students
- 2Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School3,213 students
- 3New Utrecht High School3,112 students
- 4Jhs 259 William Mckinley1,591 students
- 5Madeleine Brennan School (the)1,554 students
- 6Jhs 227 Edward B Shallow1,367 students
- 7High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology1,273 students
- 8Ps 200 Benson School1,267 students
- Enrollment+56.7%
- Teachers+40.5%
- Students per teacher+19.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+20.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory