Enrollment
167
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14·NCES 360011902533
PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN
325 BUSHWICK AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 · (718) 497-0326 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL167 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of New York public elementary schools
- B+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
11.3:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
147 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 | 30 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 23 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 18 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 27 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 15 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (23) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (28).
Student demographics
58%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
82.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +44.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +34.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 44 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 34 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 44.0% |
% 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
59.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 147 ISSAC REMSEN
PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN's state test result (59.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN this school | 167 | 88.0% | 59.7% |
| FORT HILL COLLABORATIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 182 | 91.2% | 35.9% |
| MANHATTAN CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 184 | 87.0% | 41.0% |
| PS 15 ROBERTO CLEMENTE NEW YORK | 159 | 91.2% | 52.6% |
| CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 182 | 87.4% | 23.5% |
| PS 64 ROBERT SIMON NEW YORK | 147 | 84.4% | 38.1% |
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 147 ISSAC REMSEN ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.7% | #765 of 2,335 | #116 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #404 of 2,342 ▲ 1,096 | #67 of 290 ▲ 138 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #202 of 2,343 ▲ 1,157 | #33 of 290 ▲ 162 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 167 | #2,464 of 2,585 | #283 of 306 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.0% | #497 of 2,534 | #142 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -53.0% | #26 of 1,757 | #10 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
167
-143 (-46%) vs 2020
-32% since 2010-11, when it was 245
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
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 | 167 | 14.8 | 11.3:1 | 88% (147) |
| 2023-24 | 185 | 14 | 13.2:1 | 85% (158) |
| 2022-23 | 190 | 14 | 13.6:1 | 81% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 310 | 24 | 12.9:1 | 63% (195) |
| 2017-18 | 355 | 24.2 | 14.7:1 | 70% (250) |
| 2015-16 | 294 | 22 | 13.4:1 | 83% (243) |
| 2010-11 | 245 | 25 | 9.8:1 | 95% (233) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN.
About PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN
PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 167 students enrolled. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 (38 schools, 15,288 students) runs PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN.
The student body at PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN is 59% Hispanic. It is also 25% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% White, and 4% Asian. Kings County's residents are about 19% Hispanic, 40 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 58% means there is a 58% chance two randomly chosen students at PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN are from different groups.
The school had 14.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 11.3:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. The school reported 88% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Kings County averages 79%, lower than here.
PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 75% of New York public elementary schools.
The model predicts 42.6% for a school in New York with PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN's free or reduced-price lunch share. PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN posts 59.7%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Kings County show that median household income comes to about $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Kings County counts 583 public schools with about 291,697 students.
Of the public schools around it, PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN is closest to YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN, less than a tenth of a mile away. PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 38.9% on proficiency, and PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN is above that at 59.7%.
NCES assigns PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment records show 310 in 2020-21 and 167 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. The number of students per teacher dropped from 12.9 to 11.3 over 4 years.
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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
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- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
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Nearby schools
- YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN0.0 mi · 255
- PS 196 TEN EYCK0.0 mi · 290
- MS 5820.0 mi · 332
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENTERPRISE BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY (THE)0.2 mi · 526
- EAST WILLIAMSBURG SCHOLARS ACADEMY0.2 mi · 482
- PROGRESS HIGH SCHOOL FOR PROFESSIONAL CAREERS0.2 mi · 418
Frequently asked questions
About PS 147 ISSAC REMSENHow large is PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN?
PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN enrolls approximately 167 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN serve?
PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN have?
PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
How diverse is PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN?
PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN reports a student body of 5% White, 59% Hispanic, 25% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN?
PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 in Kings County.
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