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Which teacher or staff member at PS 138 deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
356
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17·NCES 360009502504
PS 138
760 PROSPECT PL, BROOKLYN, NY 11216 · (718) 467-0800 · Kings County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL356 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% 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.
- ABeats 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
9.3:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
305 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 28 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 24 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 30 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 31 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 44 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (24) is 45% smaller than its 8th grade class (44).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
69.2%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.4pp since 2023
Math
71.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.2% | 71.3% |
| 2023-24 | 60.8% | 66.9% |
% 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
67.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% 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 24 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 138
PS 138's state test result (67.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 138 this school | 356 | 85.7% | 67.0% |
| PS 251 PAERDEGAT BROOKLYN | 329 | 86.9% | 30.7% |
| PS 80 THURGOOD MARSHALL MAGNET SCHOOL OF MULTIMEDIA (THE) JAMAICA | 363 | 88.7% | 52.0% |
| SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD ROCHESTER | 353 | 80.7% | 28.2% |
| MCKINLEY-BRIGHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 408 | 86.0% | 11.3% |
| PS 198 BROOKLYN | 327 | 85.9% | 50.4% |
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 138 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #486 of 2,335 | #74 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #646 of 2,342 ▲ 28 | #115 of 290 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #552 of 2,343 ▼ 49 | #104 of 290 ▼ 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 356 | #1,626 of 2,585 | #178 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #222 of 2,338 | #28 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.7% | #1,298 of 2,388 | #166 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.7% | #587 of 2,534 | #169 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.4% | #165 of 1,757 | #41 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
356
-133 (-27%) vs 2020
-64% since 2010-11, when it was 980
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 356 | 38.5 | 9.3:1 | 86% (305) |
| 2023-24 | 408 | 41.1 | 9.9:1 | 87% (356) |
| 2022-23 | 414 | 40.8 | 10.2:1 | 86% (356) |
| 2020-21 | 489 | 41 | 11.9:1 | 91% (444) |
| 2017-18 | 560 | 47 | 11.9:1 | 93% (520) |
| 2015-16 | 684 | 50 | 13.7:1 | 83% (571) |
| 2010-11 | 980 | 71 | 13.8:1 | 96% (944) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 138.
About PS 138
At 760 PROSPECT PL in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 138 operates as a small elementary school. It reports enrollment of 356 students in pre-K through 8.
PS 138 is among 49 schools run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, which serves 16,990 students.
Federal enrollment data show PS 138 is 69% Black. The next largest groups are 17% Hispanic, 10% White, and 2% multiracial. The school's Black share is 41 points above the 28% share among Kings County residents. A diversity index of 49% means there is a 49% chance two randomly chosen students at PS 138 are from different groups.
Its staff includes 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 9.3 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. PS 138 has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 86%.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 138 lands at A, ahead of 86% of New York public elementary schools.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, PS 138 is among the top 10% of schools in New York. Predicted: 43.5%. Actual: 67.0%.
The school is in Kings County, where the median household earns about $80,263 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Across Kings County, 583 public schools serve about 291,697 students.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS, is the closest to PS 138. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, PS 138 is 3rd of 9 on proficiency.
PS 138 is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 356, compared with 489 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 11.9 in 2020-21 to 9.3 in 2024-25.
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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 #17
- CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,325 students
- MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLHigh · 1,267 students
- PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)Elementary · 887 students
- PS 249 CATON (THE)Elementary · 663 students
- PS 316 ELIJAH STROUDElementary · 644 students
- NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMYElementary · 588 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
Other Ps 138 schools
One other US public school is named Ps 138. PS 138 is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- PS 138NEW YORK, NY · 670 students
Nearby schools
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS0.0 mi · 220
- PS 93 WILLIAM H PRESCOTT0.4 mi · 179
- RESTORATION ACADEMY0.4 mi · 91
- PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER0.5 mi · 280
- PS 316 ELIJAH STROUD0.5 mi · 644
- BROOKLYN ARTS AND SCIENCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 259
Frequently asked questions
About PS 138How large is PS 138?
PS 138 enrolls approximately 356 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does PS 138 serve?
PS 138 serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 138?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 138 is approximately 9.3:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 138?
Student demographics at PS 138 are roughly 10% White, 17% Hispanic, 69% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 138?
PS 138 is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.