P.S. 025 Eubie Blake School

At 37% ELA proficiency and 42.9% math proficiency, P.S. 025 sits meaningfully below the District 16 averages of 57.6% and 57.0% — students here are catching up, not leading. The math trajectory is the more encouraging story: scores have climbed from 36.8% in 2022 to 42.9% in 2025, a real recovery from pandemic-era lows, and back in 2018 the school posted a striking 71.4% math proficiency. ELA has been steadier but flatter, hovering in the mid-to-high 30s the last three years. The gap between what the school once achieved and where it sits now is real and worth taking seriously.

The survey numbers here are extraordinary: 99% parent satisfaction, 100% parent-teacher trust, 100% parent-principal trust, and 100% teacher-reported safety — every single trust measure sits at or near a perfect score. That's a rare combination, even if you account for the very small sample (only 7 teacher respondents and 35 family respondents, which means a single dissenting voice shifts the numbers). The day-to-day reality looks like a calm, trusting environment with essentially no discipline issues — just one suspension in the most recent year, down from zero in prior years. The shadow over the climate picture is attendance: 84.4% attendance and a 40% chronic absenteeism rate (highest among Black students at 47.8%) mean a lot of kids are missing significant school.

The student body is 47% Black and 35% Hispanic, with smaller shares of White, Asian, Multi-Racial, and Native American students — a diversity index of 70%. The economic need index of 83.2% tells you most students come from low-income households, reflecting a neighborhood where the median household income is about $70,755 and roughly a quarter of residents live below the poverty line. Ten percent of students have IEPs. With only 68 kids total, the community here is genuinely small — a few dozen families, not a few hundred.

Bedford-Stuyvesant (East) is a historically Black neighborhood where about 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree and a quarter of households own their homes, though the median home value has climbed well past $1.1 million. Only about 12% of neighborhood households include children, which is on the lower side for Brooklyn and helps explain why a small zoned elementary like this exists at all. The block feels residential and quiet, with brownstones and small apartment buildings rather than the dense new construction you see farther west.

The school is beyond an easy walk from the subway — Myrtle Av (M, J, Z) and Myrtle-Willoughby Avs (G) are each about a 10-minute walk, and Flushing Av (M, J) is closer to 13 minutes, so most families will plan on a real commute.