Enrollment
175
Middle
DISTRICT 157 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16·NCES 360009402163
MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR
272 MACDONOUGH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11233 · (718) 574-2345 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL175 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 84% of New York public middle schools
- A-Test 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 7.3:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
161 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 71 | 41% |
| Grade 7 | 44 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 1% |
Student demographics
25%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -16.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 97.0% |
% 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
66.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% 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 25 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 MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR
MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR's state test result (66.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR this school | 175 | 92.0% | 66.2% |
| MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY BROOKLYN | 156 | 89.7% | 44.1% |
| SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 229 | 91.7% | 49.6% |
| MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MEDIA LAW AND FINE ARTS (THE) BROOKLYN | 173 | 88.4% | 43.7% |
| SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED LEARNING (THE) BROOKLYN | 214 | 93.5% | 67.1% |
| MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL BROOKLYN | 286 | 89.2% | 46.3% |
Matched among New York middle 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 MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.2% | #186 of 766 | #24 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #181 of 768 ▼ 115 | #15 of 91 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #81 of 768 ▲ 2 | #14 of 91 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 175 | #713 of 796 | #74 of 102 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.0% | #119 of 773 | #25 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.4% | #77 of 524 | #20 of 56 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
175
-10 (-5%) vs 2020
-24% since 2010-11, when it was 229
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 175 | 19 | 9.2:1 | 92% (161) |
| 2023-24 | 177 | 27.1 | 6.5:1 | 93% (164) |
| 2022-23 | 185 | 20.7 | 8.9:1 | 88% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 185 | 17 | 10.9:1 | 97% (179) |
| 2017-18 | 248 | 17 | 14.6:1 | 87% (216) |
| 2015-16 | 172 | 15 | 11.5:1 | 84% (144) |
| 2010-11 | 229 | 14 | 16.4:1 | 85% (194) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR.
About MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR
MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle school in BROOKLYN, New York. In all, 175 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. The school is 67% below the average for middle schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 has 5,175 students spread across 23 schools.
Of every 100 students at MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR, about 86 are Black. The remaining students are 13% Hispanic. Census figures show Kings County is about 28% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 25, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 9.2 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR, which has 19. The school's 9.2:1 compares with an average of 10.3:1 for middle schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 92%. The rate at public schools in Kings County averages 79%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR lands at A-, ahead of 84% of New York public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR beats its 41.2% prediction with 66.2%, a top-10% result in New York.
Looking at the 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 MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR, Kings County has 583 public schools.
MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR is less than a tenth of a mile from BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR is ahead of the 45.3% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 5% decrease, from 185 to 175. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.9:1 to 9.2:1.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGYHigh · 469 students
- PS 40 GEORGE W CARVERElementary · 465 students
- PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKSElementary · 430 students
- BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 353 students
- BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOLElementary · 352 students
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF GLOBAL FINANCE (THE)High · 222 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
- BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 352
- BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL - CSD 13.20.2 mi · 580
- PS 262 EL HAJJ MALIK EL SHABAZZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 155
- RESEARCH AND SERVICE HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 184
- NELSON MANDELA HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 138
- BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 353
Frequently asked questions
About MS 35 STEPHEN DECATURWhat is the total enrollment at MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR?
MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR enrolls approximately 175 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR serve?
MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR is approximately 9.2:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR?
Student demographics at MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR are roughly 1% White, 13% Hispanic, 86% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR?
MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 in Kings County.
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