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Enrollment
689
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13·NCES 360009102106
PS 20 CLINTON HILL
225 ADELPHI ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11205 · (718) 834-6744 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% 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.
- B+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
18.1:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
265 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 100 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 117 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 120 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 77% larger than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
78.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
69.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 69.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 64.0% |
% 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
66.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 20 CLINTON HILL
PS 20 CLINTON HILL's state test result (66.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 20 CLINTON HILL this school | 689 | 38.5% | 66.6% |
| PS 9 SARAH SMITH GARNET SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 782 | 37.2% | 53.5% |
| BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 BROOKLYN | 797 | 37.1% | 80.6% |
| PS 282 PARK SLOPE BROOKLYN | 569 | 33.9% | 62.1% |
| PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED BUFFALO | 583 | 39.3% | 72.1% |
| ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS BROOKLYN | 757 | 36.3% | 65.8% |
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 20 CLINTON HILL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.6% | #504 of 2,335 | #78 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #727 of 2,342 ▲ 24 | #125 of 290 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #287 of 2,343 ▼ 72 | #51 of 290 ▼ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #283 of 2,585 | #63 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #2,261 of 2,338 | #242 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.6% | #118 of 2,388 | #15 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.5% | #1,731 of 2,534 | #276 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +54.1% | #40 of 606 | #10 of 49 |
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
689
+168 (+32%) vs 2020
+93% since 2010-11, when it was 357
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 689 | 38 | 18.1:1 | 38% (265) |
| 2023-24 | 651 | 35 | 18.6:1 | 39% (254) |
| 2022-23 | 619 | 30.7 | 20.2:1 | 39% (244) |
| 2020-21 | 521 | 30 | 17.4:1 | 45% (232) |
| 2017-18 | 447 | 30 | 14.9:1 | 62% (276) |
| 2015-16 | 404 | 26 | 15.5:1 | 67% (272) |
| 2010-11 | 357 | 25 | 14.3:1 | 70% (250) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 20 CLINTON HILL.
About PS 20 CLINTON HILL
PS 20 CLINTON HILL is a high-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in BROOKLYN, New York. The school has 689 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
PS 20 CLINTON HILL is one school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13, a system of 42 schools with 19,151 students.
The largest group at PS 20 CLINTON HILL is White students, at 39%. Other students are 27% Black, 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Census estimates put Kings County at about 38% White, close to the school's figure. The diversity index for PS 20 CLINTON HILL is 73%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
For every teacher at PS 20 CLINTON HILL, there are about 18.1 students; the school has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 38%. For comparison, public schools in Kings County average 79%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 20 CLINTON HILL outscored 77%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, PS 20 CLINTON HILL would be expected to post about 60.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 66.6%.
In the surrounding county, Kings County, median household income comes to about $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. The county has 583 public schools and about 291,697 students.
PS 20 CLINTON HILL's nearest public school is MS 113 RONALD EDMONDS LEARNING CENTER (about 0.2 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. PS 20 CLINTON HILL places 5th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment increased 32% from 2020-21 to 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 #13
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- PS 11 PURVIS J BEHANElementary · 923 students
- BENJAMIN BANNEKER ACADEMYHigh · 854 students
- PS 9 SARAH SMITH GARNET SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 782 students
- ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERSElementary · 757 students
- PS 133 WILLIAM A BUTLERElementary · 611 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
- MS 113 RONALD EDMONDS LEARNING CENTER0.2 mi · 194
- COMPASS CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 296
- PS 46 EDWARD C BLUM0.2 mi · 283
- FORT GREEN PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.2 mi · 228
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 5,848
- BENJAMIN BANNEKER ACADEMY0.3 mi · 854
Frequently asked questions
About PS 20 CLINTON HILLHow large is PS 20 CLINTON HILL?
PS 20 CLINTON HILL enrolls approximately 689 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 20 CLINTON HILL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 20 CLINTON HILL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 20 CLINTON HILL have?
PS 20 CLINTON HILL employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1:1.
How diverse is PS 20 CLINTON HILL?
PS 20 CLINTON HILL reports a student body of 39% White, 19% Hispanic, 27% Black, 5% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is PS 20 CLINTON HILL public or private?
PS 20 CLINTON HILL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.