Enrollment
297
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23·NCES 360012106288
CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
51 CHRISTOPHER AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11212 · (718) 495-5761 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL297 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 80% 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.
- ABeats 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
12.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
296 students
DISTRICT 94% · 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 | 78 | 26% |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 23 | 8% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 61% larger than its 5th grade class (23).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
81.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +34.0pp since 2023
Math
84.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +17.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 34 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 84.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 67.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
61.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in New York's top 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 CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL's state test result (61.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL this school | 297 | 99.7% | 61.3% |
| URBAN SCHOLARS COMMUNITY SCHOOL BRONX | 294 | 98.0% | 43.0% |
| PS 328 PHYLLIS WHEATLEY BROOKLYN | 264 | 97.3% | 50.8% |
| PS 18 JOHN PETER ZENGER BRONX | 271 | 100.0% | 22.6% |
| PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER STATEN ISLAND | 315 | 94.3% | 18.7% |
| CORNERSTONE ACADEMY FOR SOCIAL ACTION BRONX | 258 | 96.5% | 28.0% |
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 CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #700 of 2,335 | #106 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #245 of 2,342 ▲ 400 | #40 of 290 ▲ 51 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #224 of 2,343 ▲ 752 | #40 of 290 ▲ 113 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 297 | #2,008 of 2,585 | #205 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #1,479 of 2,338 | #131 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.0% | #870 of 2,388 | #114 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.7% | #6 of 2,534 | #2 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #1,731 of 1,757 | #224 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
297
+20 (+7%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 297 | 23.6 | 12.6:1 | 100% (296) |
| 2023-24 | 280 | 19.4 | 14.4:1 | 99% (276) |
| 2022-23 | 225 | 19.9 | 11.3:1 | 97% (218) |
| 2020-21 | 277 | 25 | 11.1:1 | 97% (269) |
| 2017-18 | 299 | 26 | 11.5:1 | 97% (291) |
| 2015-16 | 309 | 24 | 12.9:1 | 89% (275) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
About CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. The school serves 297 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 33% smaller than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 has 7,257 students spread across 28 schools.
At CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL, Hispanic students make up 52% of the student body. The remaining shares are 40% Black and 5% White. Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 57% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 23.6 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 12.6:1. That matches the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York fairly closely. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 100%. It compares with 79% for public schools in Kings County.
The allk12 Grade for CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is A-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 80% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations places CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL in the top 10% of New York schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 22.9 points above it (61.3% actual, 38.3% predicted).
CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is located in Kings County, where the median household income is $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, UNCOMMON BROWNSVILLE NORTH CHARTER SCHOOL NYC, is less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 43.9%; CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL's is 61.3%, ranking 2nd of 9.
CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of City: Large.
Federal data show a 7% enrollment gain, from 277 in 2020-21 to 297 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.1:1 to 12.6:1.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 #23
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN IIHigh · 662 students
- BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 512 students
- PS 156 WAVERLYElementary · 421 students
- PS 184 NEWPORTElementary · 395 students
- BROOKLYN LANDMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 378 students
- PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZElementary · 339 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
- UNCOMMON BROWNSVILLE NORTH CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.0 mi · 1,313
- PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ0.1 mi · 339
- BROWNSVILLE COLLABORATIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 271
- PS 150 CHRISTOPHER0.2 mi · 97
- GREGORY JOCKO JACKSON-SPORTS-ARTS0.4 mi · 203
- PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER0.4 mi · 298
Frequently asked questions
About CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOLHow large is CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 297 students in grades PK-05.
Is CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL are roughly 5% White, 52% Hispanic, 40% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL in?
CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.