From b9d41e46024e0152ad461e221722d0991754f65a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Hoefler <61934744+phofl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:11:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] REGR: from_records not initializing subclasses properly
 (#60726)

* REGR: from_records not initializing subclasses properly

* Move whatsnew
---
 doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.3.rst      | 6 ++++++
 pandas/core/frame.py                | 6 ++++--
 pandas/tests/frame/test_subclass.py | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.3.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.3.rst
index eeba61a686c73..2f95c62c8f268 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.3.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.3.rst
@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ Bug fixes
 - The :meth:`DataFrame.iloc` now works correctly with ``copy_on_write`` option when assigning values after subsetting the columns of a homogeneous DataFrame (:issue:`60309`)
 
 
+Other Bug fixes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.from_records` not initializing subclasses properly (:issue:`57008`)
+
+
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .. _whatsnew_233.contributors:
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index c99ba07a55d46..cc260770cbd78 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -2549,8 +2549,10 @@ def maybe_reorder(
 
         manager = _get_option("mode.data_manager", silent=True)
         mgr = arrays_to_mgr(arrays, columns, result_index, typ=manager)
-
-        return cls._from_mgr(mgr, axes=mgr.axes)
+        df = DataFrame._from_mgr(mgr, axes=mgr.axes)
+        if cls is not DataFrame:
+            return cls(df, copy=False)
+        return df
 
     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 855b58229cbdb..39a29406c6e9a 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/test_subclass.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/test_subclass.py
@@ -784,6 +784,13 @@ 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."""