Enrollment
200
Elementary
DISTRICT 233 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16·NCES 360009406049
BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
280 HART ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 · (718) 574-2378 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL200 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
10.5:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
137 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 50 | 25% |
| Kindergarten | 23 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 23 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 29 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (23) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (25).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
38.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +16.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 22.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
29.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL's state test result (29.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL this school | 200 | 68.5% | 29.7% |
| BROOKLYN ARTS AND SCIENCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 259 | 70.3% | 46.0% |
| HARBOR VIEW SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 256 | 75.8% | 43.8% |
| PS 26 JESSE OWENS BROOKLYN | 214 | 78.0% | 46.0% |
| TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 295 | 75.3% | 56.9% |
| MUSEUM SCHOOL 25 YONKERS | 219 | 78.1% | 15.7% |
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 BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #2,021 of 2,335 | #260 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,903 of 2,342 ▲ 270 | #248 of 290 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,592 of 2,343 ▲ 298 | #232 of 290 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 200 | #2,388 of 2,585 | #263 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #624 of 2,338 | #58 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #494 of 2,388 | #71 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.5% | #1,000 of 2,534 | #244 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.7% | #176 of 1,757 | #44 of 225 |
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
200
-107 (-35%) vs 2020
+45% since 2010-11, when it was 138
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 200 | 19 | 10.5:1 | 69% (137) |
| 2023-24 | 266 | 20 | 13.3:1 | 67% (178) |
| 2022-23 | 286 | 21 | 13.6:1 | 60% (173) |
| 2020-21 | 307 | 21 | 14.6:1 | 71% (218) |
| 2017-18 | 311 | 21 | 14.8:1 | 85% (263) |
| 2015-16 | 166 | 9 | 18.4:1 | 89% (147) |
| 2010-11 | 138 | 8 | 17.3:1 | 75% (104) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
About BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is a small elementary school with an address in BROOKLYN, New York. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 200 students. It has 55% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 has 5,175 students spread across 23 schools.
Black students account for 42% of enrollment at BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 40% Hispanic, 12% White, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 28% of Kings County residents are Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.5:1. The school has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. In all, 69% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 11% of New York public elementary schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 49.8%. BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL posts 29.7%, 20.1 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Kings County show median household income comes to about $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. The county has 583 public schools and about 291,697 students.
BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from PS 25 EUBIE BLAKE SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 29.7% is below the 55.7% average for nearby schools.
BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 107 students, from 307 to 200. Students per teacher dropped from 14.6 in 2020-21 to 10.5 in 2024-25.
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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
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- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
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Nearby schools
- PS 25 EUBIE BLAKE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 49
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BED STUY 30.2 mi · 494
- BEDFORD STUYVESANT NEW BEGINNINGS CHARTER SCHOOL 20.2 mi · 142
- BEDFORD STUYVESANT NEW BEGINNINGS CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 665
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BED STUY 20.3 mi · 271
- PS 59 THE DAWN BEST SCHOOL0.3 mi · 265
Frequently asked questions
About BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 200 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL serve?
BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.5:1 students per teacher at BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
At BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 12% White, 40% Hispanic, 42% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL public or private?
BRIGHTER CHOICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.