J.H.S. 259 William McKinley

7305 Ft Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11228 · Brooklyn · Junior High-Intermediate-Middle

DBN: 20K259

Junior High-Intermediate-Middle

Zoned: Middle

SchoolDigger: 147 (of 1500)

Niche: A- · 218 (of 1507)

Fed by these elementary schools

P.S. 127 McKinley Park P.S. 185 Walter Kassenbrock P.S. 105 The Blythebourne P.S. 69 Vincent D. Grippo School The School For Future Leaders Ralph A. Fabrizio School P.S. 176 Ovington P.S. 102 The Bayview Sunset School of Cultural Learning P.S./I.S. 30 Mary White Ovington School of Math, Science, and Healthy Living P.S. 506: The School of Journalism & Technology Joanne Seminara School of Law and Medicine

Academic quality

ELA = English Language Arts (reading and writing). Math and Science are self-explanatory.
NY State tests ELA and Math every year in grades 3-8, and Science once, in grade 8 -- a school's numbers below only reflect whichever of those grades it actually serves (no social studies/history state test exists at this level).
"Avg. rating" is DOE's average student score on a 1.0-4.5 scale (higher is better) -- shown here as "value / 4.5" alongside the citywide average for the same metric as a benchmark for what's typical.

Attendance: 94.7%

85.3% attend 90%+ of days

Subject

Student group

Overall proficiency

ELA % proficient

71.5%(citywide avg: 76.4%)

ELA avg. rating

3.43 / 4.5(citywide avg: 3.51 / 4.5)

Math % proficient

81.9%(citywide avg: 78.3%)

Math avg. rating

3.69 / 4.5(citywide avg: 3.61 / 4.5)

Science % proficient (Grade 8 only)

66.3%

Science avg. rating (Grade 8 only)

3.26 / 4.5

By grade

Grade 6 ELA

73.6%

Grade 6 Math

78.9%

Grade 7 ELA

74.6%

Grade 7 Math

85.9%

Grade 8 ELA

66.7%

Grade 8 Math

80.6%

By student group

English Language Learners -- ELA

41.3%(citywide avg: 50.2%)

English Language Learners -- Math

69.1%(citywide avg: 65.1%)

Students with disabilities -- ELA

39.1%

Students with disabilities -- Math

46%

Asian students -- ELA

78.5%(citywide avg: 81.2%)

Asian students -- Math

92.2%(citywide avg: 88.4%)

Black students -- ELA

62.5%(citywide avg: 67.7%)

Small sample (16 students) -- treat as directional.

Black students -- Math

62.5%(citywide avg: 59.4%)

Small sample (16 students) -- treat as directional.

Hispanic/Latino students -- ELA

52.3%(citywide avg: 58.4%)

Hispanic/Latino students -- Math

56.2%(citywide avg: 51.9%)

White students -- ELA

71.1%(citywide avg: 73.1%)

White students -- Math

78.7%(citywide avg: 72.2%)

Multiracial students -- ELA

71.4%(citywide avg: 72.8%)

Multiracial students -- Math

89.3%(citywide avg: 84.7%)

"% proficient" is the share of students scoring Level 3 or 4 on the state test. Citywide comparisons are the average across schools of the same type. Grades and groups with very few tested students are flagged since a handful of kids can swing the percentage a lot; groups too small to report are omitted by DOE for student privacy -- that's also why Science, tested only once, shows up far less often than ELA/Math.Source: NYC Open Data: School Quality Reports Data (2024-25 school year (latest published; checked Oct 16, 2026))

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Demographics

1802 students enrolled

Economic Need Index: 75.34%

Race & ethnicity

Asian and Pacific Islander

60.16%

Black

0.83%

Hispanic or Latino

17.65%

White

19.31%

Multiracial

1.66%

Native American

0.11%

Missing race/ethnicity data

0.28%

Other groups

Students with disabilities

13.43%

English Language Learners

14.71%

Living in poverty

79.58%

Female

45.67%

Male

54.33%

Neither female nor male

Economic Need Index is DOE's estimate of the share of students facing economic hardship, based on eligibility for public assistance, temporary housing status, and household income relative to the poverty line. Some very high values are reported by DOE only as "Above 95%" for student privacy and are shown here as 95%.Source: NYC DOE: Demographic Snapshot (2025-26 school year (latest published; checked Oct 16, 2026))

Middle School admissions priority breakdown

Admissions cycle

For seats starting the 2026-27 school year. NYC DOE reports these seat/applicant figures under the school year they're for, not the cycle that filled them.

Screened

46 seats

12 applicants per seat

Priority groups, in the order NYC DOE offers seats. Tap a group for NYC DOE's exact wording.

1. Priority to students and residents of District 20

~9% admitted

There were about 540 applicants in this group and about 50 received offers last year.This group's offers alone accounted for ~109% of the program's seats -- not the same as this group's own admit rate above, since offers can exceed seats (not everyone who gets one enrolls).

2. Then to New York City residents

~0% admitted

There were about 20 applicants in this group and none received offers last year.This group's offers alone accounted for ~0% of the program's seats -- not the same as this group's own admit rate above, since offers can exceed seats (not everyone who gets one enrolls).

Estimates derived from NYC DOE's own wording, which rounds and fuzzes small numbers for privacy. Each group's applicant count is independent of the others -- schools are usually oversubscribed, so applicant counts across groups often add up to more than the total seats. That's expected, not an error.Source: NYC DOE MySchools Admissions Data (Through the 2025-26 cycle for middle school, 2024-25 for kindergarten (2025-26 kindergarten results not yet published; checked Oct 16, 2026))

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