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Enrollment
923
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13·NCES 360009102074
PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN
419 WAVERLY AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11238 · (718) 638-2661 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL923 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of New York public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
285 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 91 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 160 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 156 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 157 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 128 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (160) is 48% larger than its 5th grade class (108).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
97.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
97.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 97 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 97 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 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 97.0% | 97.0% |
| 2023-24 | 91.0% | 89.0% |
% 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
90.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% 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 27 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 11 PURVIS J BEHAN
PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN's state test result (90.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN this school | 923 | 30.9% | 90.4% |
| ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS BROOKLYN | 757 | 36.3% | 65.8% |
| BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 BROOKLYN | 797 | 37.1% | 80.6% |
| PS 9 SARAH SMITH GARNET SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 782 | 37.2% | 53.5% |
| MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALDWIN | 613 | 40.1% | 47.5% |
| SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 640 | 41.7% | 56.1% |
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 11 PURVIS J BEHAN ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.4% | #37 of 2,335 | #8 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 97.0% | #38 of 2,342 ▲ 77 | #9 of 290 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 97.0% | #14 of 2,343 ▲ 4 | #4 of 290 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 923 | #72 of 2,585 | #19 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #2,281 of 2,338 | #245 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.3% | #302 of 2,388 | #40 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.9% | #1,954 of 2,534 | #287 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.4% | #455 of 606 | #43 of 49 |
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
923
+64 (+7%) vs 2020
+54% since 2010-11, when it was 598
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 923 | 48.5 | 19.0:1 | 31% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 852 | 45 | 18.9:1 | 34% (286) |
| 2022-23 | 832 | 41.8 | 19.9:1 | 37% (310) |
| 2020-21 | 859 | 47 | 18.3:1 | 35% (302) |
| 2017-18 | 893 | 50 | 17.9:1 | 45% (401) |
| 2015-16 | 832 | 47 | 17.7:1 | 45% (373) |
| 2010-11 | 598 | 42 | 14.2:1 | 61% (365) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN.
About PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN
PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN is a large elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 923 students. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 108% bigger than that.
PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN is among 42 schools run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, which serves 19,151 students.
Federal enrollment data show Black students as the largest group at PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN, at 49%. Other groups include 20% White, 14% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 4% Asian. By comparison, Kings County residents are about 28% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 68% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN, 48.5 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 19.0:1. That is higher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Roughly 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Kings County, the average eligibility rate is 79%.
allk12 grades PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN an A+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN is 63.6%. It actually posts 90.4%, which is 26.7 points higher and in the top 10% of New York schools.
In Kings County (population about 2,631,580), the median household income is $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. There are 583 public schools in Kings County, enrolling about 291,697 students in all.
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST ENDEAVOR CHARTER SCHOOL is located about 0.2 miles from PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Federal data place PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN climbed 7% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 859 to 923 students.
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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 #13
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- BENJAMIN BANNEKER ACADEMYHigh · 854 students
- PS 9 SARAH SMITH GARNET SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 782 students
- ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERSElementary · 757 students
- PS 20 CLINTON HILLElementary · 689 students
- PS 133 WILLIAM A BUTLERElementary · 611 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
- ACHIEVEMENT FIRST ENDEAVOR CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 579
- PS 753 SCHOOL FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT0.3 mi · 408
- PS 56 LEWIS H LATIMER0.3 mi · 253
- URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 172
- MS 113 RONALD EDMONDS LEARNING CENTER0.4 mi · 194
- COMPASS CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 296
Frequently asked questions
About PS 11 PURVIS J BEHANHow many students attend PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN?
PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN enrolls approximately 923 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN serve?
PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN?
Approximately 19.0:1 students per teacher at PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN?
At PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN, the student body is approximately 20% White, 14% Hispanic, 49% Black, 4% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN public or private?
PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.