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Enrollment
1,209
Elementary
DISTRICT 673 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20·NCES 360015102679
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL
1940 BENSON AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11214 · (718) 236-5466 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,209 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
13.4:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
1,100 students
DISTRICT 82% · 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 | 17 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 181 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 205 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 203 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 211 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 191 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 196 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (181) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (196).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
60.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
66.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 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
56.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 200 BENSON SCHOOL
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL's state test result (56.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL this school | 1,209 | 91.0% | 56.4% |
| PS 253 BROOKLYN | 955 | 90.9% | 69.2% |
| PS 99 ISAAC ASIMOV BROOKLYN | 847 | 86.7% | 46.3% |
| PS 177 MARLBORO (THE) BROOKLYN | 883 | 89.8% | 58.0% |
| PS 186 DR IRVING A GLADSTONE BROOKLYN | 973 | 84.8% | 59.7% |
| PS 95 GRAVESEND (THE) BROOKLYN | 916 | 83.1% | 65.9% |
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 200 BENSON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.4% | #911 of 2,335 | #137 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #843 of 2,342 ▼ 83 | #137 of 290 ▼ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #935 of 2,343 ▼ 26 | #168 of 290 ▼ 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,209 | #10 of 2,585 | #3 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,738 of 2,338 | #162 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #380 of 2,388 | #55 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.0% | #369 of 2,534 | #95 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.1% | #1,270 of 1,757 | #199 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
1,209
-91 (-7%) vs 2020
-9% since 2010-11, when it was 1,329
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 1,209 | 90.1 | 13.4:1 | 91% (1,100) |
| 2023-24 | 1,236 | 85.9 | 14.4:1 | 87% (1,076) |
| 2022-23 | 1,267 | 80.1 | 15.8:1 | 86% (1,090) |
| 2020-21 | 1,300 | 79 | 16.5:1 | 83% (1,080) |
| 2017-18 | 1,315 | 79 | 16.6:1 | 82% (1,084) |
| 2015-16 | 1,303 | 77 | 16.9:1 | 78% (1,018) |
| 2010-11 | 1,329 | 76 | 17.5:1 | 74% (987) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL.
About PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school found in BROOKLYN, New York. Federal data show 1,209 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 173% bigger than that mark.
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL is one school in a 48-school district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20, which enrolls 44,136 students.
The biggest share of students at PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL, 38%, is White. The next largest groups are 38% Asian and 19% Hispanic. That is in line with Kings County, where about 38% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 67%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL is 13.4:1, based on 90.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is close to this figure. Lunch program data show 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Kings County, the average is 79%.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL lands at B+, ahead of 72% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 41.5% for PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL. The school posts 56.4%, 14.9 points above the prediction.
The school is in Kings County, where median household income comes to about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Kings County's 583 public schools enroll about 291,697 students and include PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL.
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is PS 128 BENSONHURST, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL at 6th of 9.
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL has an NCES locale of City: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 1,300 to 1,209, a 7% decline. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 16.5:1 in 2020-21 to 13.4:1 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 #20
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
- NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,236 students
- JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEYMiddle · 1,780 students
- MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,518 students
- JHS 227 EDWARD B SHALLOWMiddle · 1,327 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
- PS 128 BENSONHURST0.4 mi · 435
- BROOKLYN STUDIO SECONDARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 892
- PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS0.4 mi · 433
- PS 163 BATH BEACH0.4 mi · 621
- HEBREW LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL 20.6 mi · 335
- PS 101 VERRAZANO (THE)0.6 mi · 1,113
Frequently asked questions
About PS 200 BENSON SCHOOLHow many students attend PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL?
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,209 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL serve?
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL.
How diverse is PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL?
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL reports a student body of 38% White, 19% Hispanic, 2% Black, 38% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL?
PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.