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What's one thing ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
757
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13·NCES 360009105901
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
344 MONROE ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11216 · (718) 789-3962 · Kings County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL757 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
275 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 97 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 96 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 82 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 12% smaller than its 8th grade class (82).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
73.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
65.9%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 65.9% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 66.3% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
65.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS's state test result (65.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS this school | 757 | 36.3% | 65.8% |
| BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 BROOKLYN | 797 | 37.1% | 80.6% |
| PS 9 SARAH SMITH GARNET SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 782 | 37.2% | 53.5% |
| SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 640 | 41.7% | 56.1% |
| PS 20 CLINTON HILL BROOKLYN | 689 | 38.5% | 66.6% |
| PS 282 PARK SLOPE BROOKLYN | 569 | 33.9% | 62.1% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #535 of 2,335 | #87 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #868 of 2,342 ▼ 188 | #139 of 290 ▼ 44 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #424 of 2,343 ▼ 155 | #82 of 290 ▼ 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 757 | #193 of 2,585 | #45 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,555 of 2,338 | #140 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.1% | #169 of 2,388 | #20 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.3% | #1,801 of 2,534 | #282 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +46.7% | #47 of 606 | #12 of 49 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
757
+97 (+15%) vs 2020
+147% since 2010-11, when it was 307
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 757 | 59.1 | 12.8:1 | 36% (275) |
| 2023-24 | 723 | 54.6 | 13.2:1 | 38% (272) |
| 2022-23 | 729 | 48.9 | 14.9:1 | 39% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 660 | 46 | 14.3:1 | 36% (236) |
| 2017-18 | 516 | 34 | 15.2:1 | 30% (153) |
| 2015-16 | 517 | 32 | 16.2:1 | 29% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 307 | 20 | 15.3:1 | 66% (203) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS.
About ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS is one of the public schools in BROOKLYN, New York. It is a large elementary school. The school has 757 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 8. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 enrolls 19,151 students in 42 schools, including ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS.
The largest group at ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS is Black students, at 37%. Smaller groups are 36% White, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 6% Asian. For comparison, the population of Kings County is roughly 28% Black. The diversity index for ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 59.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.8 students per teacher. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is similar, at 12.8:1. Roughly 36% of students at ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Kings County is 79%.
Among New York public elementary schools, ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS outscored 75%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS is 4.2 points above its prediction. Actual: 65.8%. Predicted: 61.6%.
Kings County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kings County's 583 public schools enroll about 291,697 students and include ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS.
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS's nearest public school is BROOKLYN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL (about 0.1 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 49.4%; ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS's is 65.8%, ranking 3rd of 8.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 15% rise took enrollment from 660 in 2020-21 to 757 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.8:1) than in 2020-21 (14.3:1).
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Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- PS 11 PURVIS J BEHANElementary · 923 students
- BENJAMIN BANNEKER ACADEMYHigh · 854 students
- PS 9 SARAH SMITH GARNET SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 782 students
- PS 20 CLINTON HILLElementary · 689 students
- PS 133 WILLIAM A BUTLERElementary · 611 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 108
- UNITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN0.2 mi · 513
- PS 44 MARCUS GARVEY0.2 mi · 120
- PS 1400.3 mi · 327
- UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.3 mi · 1,165
- BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL - CSD 13.20.4 mi · 580
Frequently asked questions
About ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERSWhat is the total enrollment at ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS?
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS enrolls approximately 757 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS serve?
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS?
At ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS, the student body is approximately 36% White, 13% Hispanic, 37% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS public or private?
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.