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Enrollment
446
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32·NCES 360009702457
PS 123 SUYDAM
100 IRVING AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11237 · (718) 821-4810 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL446 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test 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
9.9:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
424 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 | 47 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
18%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
38.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
44.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 22.0% | 35.0% |
% 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
32.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% 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 123 SUYDAM
PS 123 SUYDAM's state test result (32.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 123 SUYDAM this school | 446 | 95.1% | 32.2% |
| PS 189 NEW YORK | 421 | 93.3% | 49.3% |
| PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL BRONX | 409 | 96.3% | 40.3% |
| HELEN M MARSHALL SCHOOL CORONA | 462 | 95.7% | 36.3% |
| PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY NEW YORK | 456 | 94.5% | 40.0% |
| PS 5 ELLEN LURIE NEW YORK | 425 | 95.1% | 30.1% |
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 123 SUYDAM ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #1,955 of 2,335 | #251 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,675 of 2,342 ▲ 164 | #225 of 290 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,873 of 2,343 ▲ 223 | #253 of 290 ▲ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 446 | #1,091 of 2,585 | #141 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.9:1 | #408 of 2,338 | #50 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.4% | #2,135 of 2,388 | #256 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.1% | #191 of 2,534 | #41 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.1% | #335 of 1,757 | #81 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
446
-83 (-16%) vs 2020
-49% since 2010-11, when it was 869
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 446 | 45 | 9.9:1 | 95% (424) |
| 2023-24 | 485 | 42.2 | 11.5:1 | 91% (442) |
| 2022-23 | 507 | 40.6 | 12.5:1 | 87% (440) |
| 2020-21 | 529 | 45 | 11.8:1 | 78% (411) |
| 2017-18 | 620 | 52 | 11.9:1 | 96% (598) |
| 2015-16 | 751 | 50 | 15.0:1 | 98% (735) |
| 2010-11 | 869 | 66 | 13.2:1 | 98% (850) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 123 SUYDAM.
About PS 123 SUYDAM
This page covers PS 123 SUYDAM, a mid-sized elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. The school has 446 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32 is made up of 27 schools with 8,794 students in all.
A large majority of enrollment at PS 123 SUYDAM is Hispanic, at 90%. After that, the student body is 5% Black and 2% White. Among all residents of Kings County, the Hispanic share is about 19%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 18%.
Its staff includes 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 9.9 students per teacher. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 95% of students at PS 123 SUYDAM can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Kings County, the average eligibility rate is 79%.
PS 123 SUYDAM holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 24% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 40.0% at PS 123 SUYDAM; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 32.2%.
In Kings County, home to about 2,631,580 people, median household income comes to about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kings County's 583 public schools enroll about 291,697 students and include PS 123 SUYDAM.
PS 123 SUYDAM's nearest public school is JHS 162 WILLOUGHBY (THE) (about 0.2 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, PS 123 SUYDAM ranks 8th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased 16% over 4 years, reaching 446 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 11.8:1 in 2020-21 to 9.9:1 in 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about PS 123 SUYDAM, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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/IS 45 HORACE E GREENEElementary · 440 students
- PS 145 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 428 students
- ALL CITY LEADERSHIP SECONDARY SCHOOLHigh · 416 students
- EBC HIGH SCHOOL FOR PUBLIC SERVICE-BUSHWICKHigh · 415 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
- JHS 162 WILLOUGHBY (THE)0.2 mi · 281
- PS 86 IRVINGTON (THE)0.3 mi · 347
- IS 349 MATH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY0.4 mi · 173
- IS 347 SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES0.4 mi · 193
- PS 3760.4 mi · 466
- LEARNERS AND LEADERS0.4 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About PS 123 SUYDAMWhat is the total enrollment at PS 123 SUYDAM?
PS 123 SUYDAM enrolls approximately 446 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 123 SUYDAM serve?
PS 123 SUYDAM serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 123 SUYDAM?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 123 SUYDAM is approximately 9.9:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 123 SUYDAM?
At PS 123 SUYDAM, the student body is approximately 2% White, 90% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian.
Is PS 123 SUYDAM public or private?
PS 123 SUYDAM 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.