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What's something PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,119
Elementary
DISTRICT 673 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20·NCES 360015102396
PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE)
1031 59TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11219 · (718) 438-3230 · Kings County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,119 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% 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
15.8:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
1,057 students
DISTRICT 82% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 172 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 153 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 194 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 201 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 201 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 195 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (172) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (195).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
71.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
89.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 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 | 71.0% | 89.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 85.0% |
% 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
76.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+36.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% 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 36 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 PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE)
PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE)'s state test result (76.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) this school | 1,119 | 94.5% | 76.3% |
| PS 160 WILLIAM T SAMPSON BROOKLYN | 965 | 97.0% | 69.6% |
| PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON FLUSHING | 1,197 | 84.7% | 71.4% |
| PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS FLUSHING | 757 | 84.8% | 71.7% |
| PS 69 VINCENT D GRIPPO SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 558 | 96.2% | 71.2% |
| PS 131 ABIGAIL ADAMS JAMAICA | 754 | 88.2% | 64.9% |
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 PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.3% | #234 of 2,335 | #31 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #146 of 2,342 ▲ 38 | #28 of 290 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #484 of 2,343 ▼ 121 | #91 of 290 ▼ 37 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,119 | #17 of 2,585 | #4 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #2,141 of 2,338 | #217 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.3% | #2,194 of 2,388 | #260 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.5% | #223 of 2,534 | #53 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.1% | #398 of 1,757 | #91 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
1,119
-242 (-18%) vs 2020
-35% since 2010-11, when it was 1,732
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 1,119 | 71 | 15.8:1 | 94% (1,057) |
| 2023-24 | 1,132 | 68 | 16.6:1 | 96% (1,084) |
| 2022-23 | 1,200 | 75.6 | 15.9:1 | 86% (1,029) |
| 2020-21 | 1,361 | 76 | 17.9:1 | 88% (1,194) |
| 2017-18 | 1,514 | 88 | 17.2:1 | 88% (1,335) |
| 2015-16 | 1,676 | 91 | 18.4:1 | 61% (1,028) |
| 2010-11 | 1,732 | 98 | 17.7:1 | 92% (1,594) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE).
About PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE)
PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) is an elementary school located in BROOKLYN, New York, in Kings County. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 1,119 students. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 153% higher.
PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) is in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, a district with 44,136 students across 48 schools.
The share of Asian students at PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) is 92%. The next largest groups are 5% Hispanic and 3% White. The school's Asian share is 80 points above the 12% share among Kings County residents. The diversity index for PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) is 15%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
A staff of 71 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 15.8:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 94%. The gap from the 79% average for public schools in Kings County is 15 points.
PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 95% of New York public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) ranks in the top 10% in New York. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 76.3%, against a prediction of 40.3%.
Kings County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Public schools in Kings County number 583, with about 291,697 students.
SCHOOL FOR FUTURE LEADERS (THE) is about 0.2 miles from PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE), the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
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.
In 2020-21, PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) enrolled 1,361 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 1,119. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 17.9:1 in 2020-21 to 15.8:1 in 2024-25.
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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 #20
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
- NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,236 students
- JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEYMiddle · 1,780 students
- MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,518 students
- JHS 227 EDWARD B SHALLOWMiddle · 1,327 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 FOR FUTURE LEADERS (THE)0.2 mi · 535
- PS 69 VINCENT D GRIPPO SCHOOL0.3 mi · 558
- PS 160 WILLIAM T SAMPSON0.4 mi · 965
- CHRISTA MCAULIFFE SCHOOL (THE) /IS 1870.4 mi · 949
- DETECTIVE WENJIAN LIU SCHOOL OF CIVICS AND ENTREPRENERUSHIP0.4 mi · 31
- JHS 220 JOHN J PERSHING0.5 mi · 1,257
Frequently asked questions
About PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE)How large is PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE)?
PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) enrolls approximately 1,119 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) serve?
PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) is approximately 15.8:1 (71 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE)?
Student demographics at PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) are roughly 3% White, 5% Hispanic, 0% Black, 92% Asian.
What district is PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) in?
PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.