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Enrollment
514
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22·NCES 360015302852
PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL
5101 AVE M, BROOKLYN, NY 11234 · (718) 241-8488 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL514 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% 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.
- BBeats 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
12.6:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
418 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 73 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
56%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
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +22.0pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +20.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 20 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
45.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL
PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL's state test result (45.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL this school | 514 | 81.3% | 45.1% |
| BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 489 | 77.9% | 50.4% |
| PS/MS 138 SUNRISE ROSEDALE | 554 | 79.1% | 36.7% |
| JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) JAMAICA | 526 | 81.4% | 46.3% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA JAMAICA | 553 | 72.0% | 93.6% |
| SCHOOL 25-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ROCHESTER | 471 | 82.6% | 22.9% |
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 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #1,384 of 2,335 | #198 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,180 of 2,342 ▲ 600 | #183 of 290 ▲ 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #847 of 2,343 ▲ 417 | #152 of 290 ▲ 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 514 | #759 of 2,585 | #116 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #1,490 of 2,338 | #132 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.4% | #921 of 2,388 | #119 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.3% | #727 of 2,534 | #196 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.7% | #291 of 1,757 | #70 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
514
-26 (-5%) vs 2020
-46% since 2010-11, when it was 948
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 514 | 40.8 | 12.6:1 | 81% (418) |
| 2023-24 | 490 | 35.1 | 13.9:1 | 79% (385) |
| 2022-23 | 501 | 34.5 | 14.5:1 | 73% (364) |
| 2020-21 | 540 | 40 | 13.5:1 | 71% (386) |
| 2017-18 | 731 | 52 | 14.1:1 | 65% (474) |
| 2015-16 | 817 | 55 | 14.8:1 | 52% (424) |
| 2010-11 | 948 | 63 | 15.1:1 | 71% (669) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL.
About PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL
As a mid-sized elementary school, PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL serves students in BROOKLYN, New York. It has an enrollment of 514 students in pre-K through 5.
PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, where 40 schools serve 30,207 students.
More than half of the students at PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL are Black (63%). The next largest groups are 14% Hispanic, 11% Asian, and 7% White. In Kings County overall, about 28% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL scores 56%.
Staffing at PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL comes to 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.6:1. That is in line with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL counts 81% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Kings County is close, at 79%.
PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 48% of New York public elementary schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL's results are within a point of predicted: 45.1% against 45.1%.
In 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 share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Kings County counts 583 public schools with about 291,697 students.
PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL's nearest public school is PS 326 (about 0.5 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL is 6th on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 5% across 4 years, from 540 in 2020-21 to 514 in 2024-25.
PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 #22
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMBElementary · 1,508 students
- JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAMMiddle · 1,447 students
- PS 197 KINGS HIGHWAY ACADEMY (THE)Elementary · 1,074 students
- LEON M GOLDSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCESHigh · 952 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 3260.5 mi · 192
- PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY0.6 mi · 918
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BERGEN BEACH0.7 mi · 977
- JHS 78 ROY H MANN0.7 mi · 662
- PS 251 PAERDEGAT0.7 mi · 329
- PS 119 AMERSFORT0.7 mi · 393
Frequently asked questions
About PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOLHow large is PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL?
PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL enrolls approximately 514 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL serve?
PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL are roughly 7% White, 14% Hispanic, 63% Black, 11% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL in?
PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.