From c972e4c1f5faf4ab8a9361830812bbe240aa3786 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Hoefler <61934744+phofl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 21:50:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] REGR: from_records not initializing subclasses properly

---
 doc/source/whatsnew/v2.2.2.rst      | 1 +
 pandas/core/frame.py                | 3 ++-
 pandas/tests/frame/test_subclass.py | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.2.2.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.2.2.rst
index 0dac3660c76b2..a813d75958561 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.2.2.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.2.2.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Fixed regressions
 - :meth:`DataFrame.__dataframe__` was producing incorrect data buffers when the a column's type was a pandas nullable on with missing values (:issue:`56702`)
 - :meth:`DataFrame.__dataframe__` was producing incorrect data buffers when the a column's type was a pyarrow nullable on with missing values (:issue:`57664`)
 - Avoid issuing a spurious ``DeprecationWarning`` when a custom :class:`DataFrame` or :class:`Series` subclass method is called (:issue:`57553`)
+- Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.from_records` not initializing subclasses properly (:issue:`57008`)
 - Fixed regression in precision of :func:`to_datetime` with string and ``unit`` input (:issue:`57051`)
 
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index 66a68755a2a09..e73c2899f1798 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -2302,7 +2302,8 @@ def maybe_reorder(
             columns = columns.drop(exclude)
 
         mgr = arrays_to_mgr(arrays, columns, result_index)
-        return cls._from_mgr(mgr, axes=mgr.axes)
+        result = cls._from_mgr(mgr, axes=mgr.axes)
+        return result._constructor_from_mgr(mgr, axes=mgr.axes)
 
     def to_records(
         self, index: bool = True, column_dtypes=None, index_dtypes=None
diff --git a/pandas/tests/frame/test_subclass.py b/pandas/tests/frame/test_subclass.py
index 7d18ef28a722d..cbd563a03b908 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/test_subclass.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/test_subclass.py
@@ -769,6 +769,13 @@ def test_constructor_with_metadata():
     assert isinstance(subset, MySubclassWithMetadata)
 
 
+def test_constructor_with_metadata_from_records():
+    # GH#57008
+    df = MySubclassWithMetadata.from_records([{"a": 1, "b": 2}])
+    assert df.my_metadata is None
+    assert type(df) is MySubclassWithMetadata
+
+
 class SimpleDataFrameSubClass(DataFrame):
     """A subclass of DataFrame that does not define a constructor."""