Enrollment
327
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32·NCES 360009702400
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE
1328 PUTNAM AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11221 · (718) 574-0261 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL327 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
8.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
296 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 33 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 38 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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
28.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
28.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 17.0% | 21.0% |
% 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
23.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE's state test result (23.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE this school | 327 | 90.5% | 23.6% |
| PS 8 LUIS BELLIARD NEW YORK | 354 | 92.9% | 31.3% |
| PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING BRONX | 372 | 88.7% | 51.0% |
| PS 98 SHORAC KAPPOCK NEW YORK | 288 | 90.3% | 31.9% |
| BRILLA PAX CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 325 | 88.0% | 54.9% |
| PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL BROOKLYN | 296 | 91.2% | 27.3% |
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 PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #2,173 of 2,335 | #278 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #2,129 of 2,342 ▲ 67 | #270 of 290 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #2,154 of 2,343 ▲ 66 | #282 of 290 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 327 | #1,823 of 2,585 | #194 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.1:1 | #67 of 2,338 | #14 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.7% | #2,133 of 2,388 | #255 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.5% | #388 of 2,534 | #101 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.4% | #497 of 1,757 | #110 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
327
-13 (-4%) vs 2020
-49% since 2010-11, when it was 637
Student : Teacher
8.1:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 327 | 40.2 | 8.1:1 | 91% (296) |
| 2023-24 | 327 | 32.9 | 9.9:1 | 89% (290) |
| 2022-23 | 356 | 32.6 | 10.9:1 | 85% (302) |
| 2020-21 | 340 | 33 | 10.3:1 | 91% (310) |
| 2017-18 | 427 | 36 | 11.9:1 | 96% (408) |
| 2015-16 | 517 | 37 | 14.0:1 | 95% (492) |
| 2010-11 | 637 | 48 | 13.3:1 | 97% (618) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
About PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE
At 1328 PUTNAM AVE in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE operates as a small elementary school. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 327 students enrolled. It has 26% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE is one school in a 27-school district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32, which enrolls 8,794 students.
At PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE, 90% of students are Hispanic. It is also 7% Black. For comparison, the population of Kings County is roughly 19% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE scores 19%.
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE has 40.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. At PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE, 91% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The gap from the 79% average for public schools in Kings County is 12 points.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE lands at D, ahead of 9% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 23.6% is 18.1 points below the 41.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Kings County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. There are 583 public schools in the county, enrolling about 291,697, PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE among them.
PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER sits about 0.1 miles from PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE. PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE ranks 8th on proficiency.
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 327, down from 340 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 10.3 to 8.1 over 4 years.
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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 #32
- JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLERMiddle · 651 students
- PS 376Elementary · 466 students
- PS 123 SUYDAMElementary · 446 students
- PS/IS 45 HORACE E GREENEElementary · 440 students
- PS 145 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 428 students
- ALL CITY LEADERSHIP SECONDARY SCHOOLHigh · 416 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
- PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER0.1 mi · 209
- ACHIEVEMENT FIRST NORTH BROOKLYN PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 843
- BUSHWICK COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 98
- JHS 291 ROLAND HAYES0.2 mi · 294
- MATH ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 515
- BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 738
Frequently asked questions
About PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALEHow many students attend PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE?
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE enrolls approximately 327 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE serve?
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE have?
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.1:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE?
Student demographics at PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE are roughly 2% White, 90% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE public or private?
PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.