Enrollment
289
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14·NCES 360011902445
PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA
18 BEAVER ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 · (718) 455-1000 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL289 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 47% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.7:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
274 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 62 | 21% |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
51.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
54.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 40.0% |
% 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
42.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 120 CARLOS TAPIA
PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA's state test result (42.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA this school | 289 | 94.8% | 42.0% |
| AMBER CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM NEW YORK | 288 | 93.4% | 44.8% |
| PS 146 ANN M SHORT NEW YORK | 305 | 96.7% | 32.1% |
| PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS BRONX | 302 | 95.4% | 40.0% |
| PS 3 RAUL JULIA MICRO SOCIETY BRONX | 308 | 96.8% | 41.7% |
| PS 67 MOHEGAN SCHOOL BRONX | 284 | 97.9% | 53.6% |
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 120 CARLOS TAPIA ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,527 of 2,335 | #212 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,279 of 2,342 ▲ 380 | #192 of 290 ▲ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,284 of 2,343 ▲ 186 | #206 of 290 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 289 | #2,053 of 2,585 | #213 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #1,515 of 2,338 | #137 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.9% | #1,331 of 2,388 | #173 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.8% | #203 of 2,534 | #44 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.0% | #310 of 1,757 | #73 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
289
-59 (-17%) vs 2020
-38% since 2010-11, when it was 464
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 289 | 22.8 | 12.7:1 | 95% (274) |
| 2023-24 | 291 | 21 | 13.9:1 | 95% (277) |
| 2022-23 | 304 | 20.1 | 15.2:1 | 89% (270) |
| 2020-21 | 348 | 27 | 12.9:1 | 87% (302) |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 29 | 14.0:1 | 87% (353) |
| 2015-16 | 429 | 32 | 13.4:1 | 77% (330) |
| 2010-11 | 464 | 38 | 12.2:1 | 80% (370) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA.
About PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA
PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA is a low-enrollment elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. School enrollment was 289 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 is made up of 38 schools with 15,288 students in all.
At 67%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA combined. The school is also 25% Black and 4% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 19%. PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA has a diversity index of 48%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
At PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA, 22.8 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 12.7:1. Elementary schools in New York average about 12.8:1, a similar figure. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 95% of enrollment. The 79% average for public schools in Kings County is 16 points lower.
allk12 grades PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA a B-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 42.0% actual against 40.1% predicted.
Among Kings County residents, median household income is about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 583 public schools in Kings County, with a combined enrollment of about 291,697.
The next-closest public school is WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA. Its average proficiency rate of 42.0% is below the 51.9% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA had 348 students in 2020-21 and 289 in 2024-25, a 17% decrease.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 #14
- IS 318 EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOSMiddle · 1,028 students
- BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL (THE)High · 772 students
- WILLIAMSBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOLHigh · 667 students
- PS 31 SAMUEL F DUPONTElementary · 644 students
- PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGOElementary · 636 students
- WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNHigh · 622 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
- WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 665
- PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN0.2 mi · 431
- PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON0.3 mi · 428
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BED STUY 20.4 mi · 271
- PS 59 THE DAWN BEST SCHOOL0.4 mi · 265
- PS 373 BROOKLYN TRANSITION CENTER0.4 mi · 433
Frequently asked questions
About PS 120 CARLOS TAPIAHow large is PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA?
PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA enrolls approximately 289 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA serve?
PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA is approximately 12.7:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA?
At PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA, the student body is approximately 4% White, 67% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA in?
PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.