Enrollment
202
Elementary
DISTRICT 541 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15·NCES 360009206406
MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)
211 8TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11215 · (718) 840-5660 · Kings County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL202 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% 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.
- 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
11.2:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
39 students
DISTRICT 61% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 46 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 25 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 29 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
62%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
82.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
83.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 83.0% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 79.0% |
% 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
75.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)
MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (75.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) this school | 202 | 19.3% | 75.9% |
| WATSON SCHOOL ROCKVILLE CENTRE | 224 | 15.2% | 77.3% |
| LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL LOCUST VALLEY | 227 | 22.5% | 77.2% |
| JOHN PEARL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOHEMIA | 193 | 14.5% | 66.3% |
| SCHOOL 4 OCEANSIDE | 264 | 18.9% | 71.2% |
| ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY LOCUST VALLEY | 211 | 13.7% | N/A |
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 MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.9% | #240 of 2,335 | #33 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #265 of 2,342 ▲ 51 | #42 of 290 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #196 of 2,343 ▼ 41 | #32 of 290 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 202 | #2,379 of 2,585 | #260 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #940 of 2,338 | #83 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #638 of 2,388 | #86 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.3% | #2,255 of 2,534 | #293 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.6% | #202 of 1,757 | #50 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
202
-78 (-28%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 202 | 18 | 11.2:1 | 19% (39) |
| 2023-24 | 199 | 17 | 11.7:1 | 19% (37) |
| 2022-23 | 211 | 15.8 | 13.3:1 | 13% (28) |
| 2020-21 | 280 | 22 | 12.7:1 | 11% (32) |
| 2017-18 | 309 | 16 | 19.3:1 | 14% (43) |
| 2015-16 | 219 | 11 | 19.9:1 | 10% (21) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE).
About MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)
Federal records list MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) as an elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 202 students. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
Besides MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE), NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 runs 50 other schools. The district enrolls 25,925 students.
At MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE), 57% of students are White. Smaller groups are 20% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian, and 3% Black. For comparison, the population of Kings County is roughly 38% White. The diversity index for MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) is 62%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) has a ratio of 11.2:1. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 19%. The average for public schools in Kings County is 79%.
MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 84% of New York public elementary schools.
A school with MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)'s lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 67.9%. MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) scores 75.9%, 8.0 points above that line.
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 MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE).
Measured in a straight line, MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDER is about 0.2 miles from MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE). Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 75.9% is above the 61.6% average for nearby schools.
For locale, NCES codes MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) as City: Large.
A 28% decline took enrollment from 280 in 2020-21 to 202 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (11.2:1) than in 2020-21 (12.7:1).
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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
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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
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- 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
- MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDER0.2 mi · 1,038
- PS 124 SILAS B DUTCHER0.3 mi · 293
- PS 39 HENRY BRISTOW0.3 mi · 365
- PS 372 CHILDREN'S SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 460
- MILLENNIUM BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 682
- JOHN JAY SCHOOL FOR LAW0.5 mi · 450
Frequently asked questions
About MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)What is the total enrollment at MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)?
MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 202 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) serve?
MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) have?
MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the student diversity at MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)?
Student demographics at MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) are roughly 57% White, 20% Hispanic, 3% Black, 7% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) in?
MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15.
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