Public school / Primary
Ps 253
Brooklyn, New York
- NCES ID
- 360015202767
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ps 253 is a public primary school in Brooklyn, New York, run by New York City Geographic District #21. It enrols 875 students — the 11564th 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
875
Teachers
62.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
83.8%
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 #21
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.
- 1Edward R Murrow High School3,639 students
- 2John Dewey High School2,150 students
- 3Abraham Lincoln High School2,129 students
- 4Is 228 David A Boody1,551 students
- 5Is 98 Bay Academy1,488 students
- 6Mark Twain Is 239 for the Gifted and Talented1,207 students
- 7Is 281 Joseph B Cavallaro1,164 students
- 8Ps 101 Verrazano (the)1,057 students
- Enrollment+93.2%
- Teachers+67.6%
- Students per teacher+22.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+43.7%
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