Enrollment
296
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32·NCES 360009702434
PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL
515 KNICKERBOCKER AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11237 · (718) 821-4623 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL296 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% 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.
- CBeats 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
12.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
270 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 | 27 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
9%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
24.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
34.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
27.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL
PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL's state test result (27.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL this school | 296 | 91.2% | 27.3% |
| BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 291 | 93.1% | 50.8% |
| PS 28 THOMAS EMANUEL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER (THE) CORONA | 265 | 92.1% | N/A |
| PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE BROOKLYN | 327 | 90.5% | 23.6% |
| BILINGUAL CENTER BUFFALO | 358 | 93.3% | 12.5% |
| OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 3 CORONA | 284 | 97.5% | 36.0% |
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 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #2,101 of 2,335 | #267 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #2,011 of 2,342 ▼ 136 | #260 of 290 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,221 of 2,343 ▼ 213 | #288 of 290 ▼ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 296 | #2,013 of 2,585 | #206 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #1,400 of 2,338 | #121 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.2% | #2,319 of 2,388 | #261 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.2% | #357 of 2,534 | #90 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.1% | #470 of 1,757 | #106 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
296
-24 (-7%) vs 2020
-42% since 2010-11, when it was 507
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
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 | 296 | 24 | 12.3:1 | 91% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 334 | 27 | 12.4:1 | 86% (287) |
| 2022-23 | 352 | 27 | 13.0:1 | 84% (295) |
| 2020-21 | 320 | 31 | 10.3:1 | 87% (278) |
| 2017-18 | 390 | 36 | 10.8:1 | 89% (348) |
| 2015-16 | 521 | 37 | 14.1:1 | 78% (408) |
| 2010-11 | 507 | 42 | 12.1:1 | 99% (502) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL.
About PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL
PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL is a low-enrollment elementary school based in BROOKLYN, New York. The school's enrollment of 296 students covers pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL is one school in a 27-school district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32, which enrolls 8,794 students.
Federal enrollment data show PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL is 95% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 2% Black. Among all residents of Kings County, the Hispanic share is about 19%. Pick two students at random and there is a 9% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL is 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.3:1. That matches the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York fairly closely. About 91% of students, or 270, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 79% average among public schools in Kings County.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL's results are 14.2 points below predicted: 27.3% against 41.5%.
Kings County has about 2,631,580 residents, and the median household income is $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL, Kings County has 582 other public schools.
JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER is located about 0.1 miles from PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL is behind the 51.5% nearby average, ranking 8th of 9.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 24 students since 2020-21, to 296. By 2024-25, the school had 12.3 students per teacher, compared with 10.3 in 2020-21.
Community posts for PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
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Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32
- JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLERMiddle · 651 students
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- ALL CITY LEADERSHIP SECONDARY SCHOOLHigh · 416 students
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- 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
- JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER0.1 mi · 651
- ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 899
- PS 86 IRVINGTON (THE)0.2 mi · 347
- ALL CITY LEADERSHIP SECONDARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 416
- BUSHWICK COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 98
- JHS 291 ROLAND HAYES0.2 mi · 294
Frequently asked questions
About PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELLHow many students attend PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL?
PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL enrolls approximately 296 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL is approximately 12.3:1 (24 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL?
PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL reports a student body of 1% White, 95% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL?
PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32 in Kings County.
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