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Enrollment
489
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360101506206
BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL
259 PARKVILLE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11230 · (718) 859-8400 · Kings County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL489 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% of New York public elementary schools
- B-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
12.2:1
40 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
381 students
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 21 | 4% |
| Grade 1 | 32 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 90 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (21) is 77% smaller than its 8th grade class (90).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.3pp since 2023
Math
38.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 38.3% |
| 2023-24 | 53.7% | 43.6% |
% 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
50.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL
BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (50.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 489 | 77.9% | 50.4% |
| PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 514 | 81.3% | 45.1% |
| PS 153 HELEN KELLER BRONX | 440 | 72.5% | 61.1% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA JAMAICA | 553 | 72.0% | 93.6% |
| PS/MS 138 SUNRISE ROSEDALE | 554 | 79.1% | 36.7% |
| SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM ROCHESTER | 486 | 81.1% | 14.9% |
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 BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.4% | #1,146 of 2,335 | #171 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #1,897 of 2,342 ▼ 339 | #247 of 290 ▼ 39 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #827 of 2,343 ▼ 85 | #147 of 290 ▼ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 489 | #884 of 2,585 | #130 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #1,357 of 2,338 | #113 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.6% | #773 of 2,388 | #105 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.9% | #834 of 2,534 | #224 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.2% | #396 of 1,757 | #90 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
489
-172 (-26%) vs 2020
+153% since 2010-11, when it was 193
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 489 | 40 | 12.2:1 | 78% (381) |
| 2023-24 | 530 | 42 | 12.6:1 | 74% (390) |
| 2022-23 | 616 | 26 | 23.7:1 | 70% (432) |
| 2020-21 | 661 | 45 | 14.7:1 | 87% (573) |
| 2017-18 | 663 | 43 | 15.4:1 | 84% (558) |
| 2015-16 | 672 | 35 | 19.2:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2010-11 | 193 | 12 | 16.1:1 | 82% (159) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL.
About BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL
Families in BROOKLYN, New York, are served by BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school. The grade span is kindergarten through 8, and enrollment is 489 students.
In federal data, the district for BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL is the school itself.
BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL is 60% Black by enrollment. Smaller groups are 21% Hispanic, 11% Asian, and 6% White. County-wide, 28% of Kings County residents are Black. BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL's diversity index is 59%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.2:1, with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York fairly closely. Lunch subsidy eligibility at BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL is 78%. That tracks the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL is 4.1 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (50.4% versus 46.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
Kings County has about 2,631,580 residents, and the median household income is $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. In all, Kings County has 583 public schools and roughly 291,697 students.
Nearest public school: PS 134, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL places 8th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
NCES assigns BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.
BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment declined from 661 in 2020-21 to 489 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.2:1, from 14.7:1.
The BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 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
- PS 1340.2 mi · 500
- PS 217 COLONEL DAVID MARCUS SCHOOL0.2 mi · 901
- JHS 62 DITMAS0.4 mi · 857
- PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE)0.6 mi · 592
- PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY0.7 mi · 706
- JHS 223 MONTAUK (THE)0.7 mi · 625
Frequently asked questions
About BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL?
BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 489 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL serve?
BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL serves grades KG-08.
How many teachers does BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL have?
BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
What is the student diversity at BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL are roughly 6% White, 21% Hispanic, 60% Black, 11% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL in?
BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL is part of BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.