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Enrollment
836
Elementary
DISTRICT 541 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15·NCES 360009202072
MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
511 7TH AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11215 · (718) 965-1190 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL836 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
13.8:1
61 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
181 students
DISTRICT 61% · 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 | 18 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 131 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 151 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 150 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 128 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 125 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 133 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (131) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (133).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
87.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
84.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 87 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 84.0% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 81.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
79.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY's state test result (79.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY this school | 836 | 21.7% | 79.7% |
| WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL FRANKLIN SQUARE | 782 | 23.0% | 53.4% |
| PS 130 PARKSIDE (THE) BROOKLYN | 891 | 28.4% | 62.5% |
| WOODWARD PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FARMINGDALE | 815 | 27.1% | 57.5% |
| SAW MILL ROAD SCHOOL NORTH BELLMORE | 700 | 18.7% | 58.3% |
| COTTAGE LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BLAUVELT | 636 | 19.2% | 55.6% |
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 MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.7% | #179 of 2,335 | #26 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #241 of 2,342 ▲ 27 | #39 of 290 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #119 of 2,343 ▲ 35 | #21 of 290 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 836 | #116 of 2,585 | #36 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,821 of 2,338 | #174 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.1% | #356 of 2,388 | #49 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.7% | #2,194 of 2,534 | #292 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.4% | #1,117 of 1,757 | #188 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
836
-31 (-4%) vs 2020
+9% since 2010-11, when it was 766
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 836 | 60.8 | 13.8:1 | 22% (181) |
| 2023-24 | 813 | 60.6 | 13.4:1 | 22% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 829 | 59.3 | 14.0:1 | 22% (186) |
| 2020-21 | 867 | 67 | 12.9:1 | 25% (217) |
| 2017-18 | 933 | 97 | 9.6:1 | 23% (219) |
| 2015-16 | 948 | 88 | 10.8:1 | 21% (202) |
| 2010-11 | 766 | 53 | 14.4:1 | 81% (622) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY.
About MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
A large elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15. Federal data show 836 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 89% larger than that mark.
MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15, where 51 schools serve 25,925 students.
The largest group at MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY is White students, at 50%. Smaller groups are 22% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 11% Asian, and 6% Black. County-wide, 38% of Kings County residents are White. The diversity index for MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY is 67%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 13.8 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY, which has 60.8. The school's 13.8:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 22%. That is lower than the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
On the allk12 Grade, MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY lands at A, ahead of 91% of New York public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 79.7%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 67.0%.
In the surrounding county, Kings County, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY, Kings County has 583 public schools.
MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY's closest public school neighbor is NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS, about 0.1 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY ranks 5th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 79.7% against a local average of 75.7%.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY had a net loss of 31 students, or 4%.
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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 #15
- SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,348 students
- PS 321 WILLIAM PENNElementary · 1,305 students
- MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDERMiddle · 1,038 students
- PS 230 DORIS L COHENElementary · 925 students
- PS 130 PARKSIDE (THE)Elementary · 891 students
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 890 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
- NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS0.1 mi · 546
- JHS 88 PETER ROUGET0.1 mi · 843
- PS 2950.1 mi · 209
- PS 530.1 mi · 406
- PS 107 JOHN W KIMBALL0.3 mi · 537
- HELLENIC CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL PARK SLOPE0.3 mi · 493
Frequently asked questions
About MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGYHow large is MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY?
MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY enrolls approximately 836 students in grades PK-05.
Is MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY an elementary, middle, or high school?
MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY.
How diverse is MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY?
MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY reports a student body of 50% White, 22% Hispanic, 6% Black, 11% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY?
MAGNET SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE & DESIGN TECHNOLOGY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.