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What's the most underrated thing about NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
431
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17·NCES 360009506409
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY
1025 EASTERN PKWY, BROOKLYN, NY 11213 · (718) 363-8200 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL431 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
11.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
350 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 76 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
69.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +18.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 55.0% |
% 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
54.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY's state test result (54.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY this school | 431 | 81.2% | 54.5% |
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 4 BRONX | 452 | 81.6% | 75.6% |
| STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 439 | 79.7% | 14.7% |
| DR DAVID AND RUTH ANDERSON ACADEMY- SCHOOL 16 ROCHESTER | 430 | 85.8% | 21.8% |
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 3 BRONX | 512 | 81.8% | 74.1% |
| JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) JAMAICA | 526 | 81.4% | 46.3% |
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 NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #979 of 2,335 | #152 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,132 of 2,342 ▼ 29 | #173 of 290 ▼ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #555 of 2,343 ▲ 258 | #106 of 290 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 431 | #1,191 of 2,585 | #147 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #928 of 2,338 | #80 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.0% | #1,464 of 2,388 | #189 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.2% | #731 of 2,534 | #198 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.7% | #1,231 of 1,757 | #196 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
431
+12 (+3%) 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 | 431 | 38.5 | 11.2:1 | 81% (350) |
| 2023-24 | 441 | 31.2 | 14.2:1 | 82% (361) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 32.6 | 13.1:1 | 82% (353) |
| 2020-21 | 419 | 33 | 12.7:1 | 85% (357) |
| 2017-18 | 472 | 43 | 11.0:1 | 86% (407) |
| 2015-16 | 413 | 34 | 12.2:1 | 89% (366) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY.
About NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY
In BROOKLYN, New York, NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary school. It enrolled 431 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY is among 49 schools run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, which serves 16,990 students.
Black students account for 72% of enrollment at NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY. Other groups make up 21% Hispanic and 3% White. Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school's share is higher. NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY has a diversity index of 44%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY counts 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 11.2 students for each one. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. About 81% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. Across public schools in Kings County, the average is about the same, 79%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY 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.
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY scores 54.5% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 45.1%.
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY is located in Kings County, where median household income is about $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY is one of 583 public schools in Kings County, which together enroll about 291,697 students.
The closest public school, SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED LEARNING (THE), is about 0.3 miles from NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Federal data place NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 419 to 431. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.2:1.
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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 #17
- CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,325 students
- MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLHigh · 1,267 students
- PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)Elementary · 887 students
- PS 249 CATON (THE)Elementary · 663 students
- PS 316 ELIJAH STROUDElementary · 644 students
- NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMYElementary · 588 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
- SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED LEARNING (THE)0.3 mi · 214
- KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 891
- MS 3940.4 mi · 201
- EXPLORE EMPOWER CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 500
- PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE0.4 mi · 162
- PS 243 WEEKSVILLE SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 199
Frequently asked questions
About NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARYHow large is NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY?
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 431 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY serve?
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY have?
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the student diversity at NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY are roughly 3% White, 21% Hispanic, 72% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY in?
NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17.
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