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Enrollment
918
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22·NCES 360015302697
PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY
4011 FILLMORE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11234 · (718) 645-8667 · Kings County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL918 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% 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.
- A-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
14.8:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
561 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 | 18 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 125 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 119 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 103 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 23% smaller than its 8th grade class (103).
Student demographics
77%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
63.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
63.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 63.1% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 62.3% |
% 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
60.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY
PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY's state test result (60.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY this school | 918 | 61.1% | 60.3% |
| UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHEEKTOWAGA | 963 | 66.6% | 33.7% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE NEW YORK | 967 | 58.8% | 93.3% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UPPER WEST NEW YORK | 1,002 | 56.3% | 94.9% |
| SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL VALLEY STREAM | 740 | 56.2% | 61.4% |
| CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL ELMONT | 764 | 59.6% | 54.1% |
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 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #733 of 2,335 | #113 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.1% | #948 of 2,342 ▼ 115 | #152 of 290 ▼ 34 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #792 of 2,343 ▼ 152 | #144 of 290 ▼ 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 918 | #73 of 2,585 | #20 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #2,003 of 2,338 | #200 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.0% | #15 of 2,388 | #3 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.1% | #1,142 of 2,534 | #256 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.4% | #421 of 1,757 | #97 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
918
-104 (-10%) vs 2020
-24% since 2010-11, when it was 1,207
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 918 | 62.2 | 14.8:1 | 61% (561) |
| 2023-24 | 885 | 63 | 14.1:1 | 54% (479) |
| 2022-23 | 896 | 61 | 14.7:1 | 54% (481) |
| 2020-21 | 1,022 | 72 | 14.2:1 | 44% (445) |
| 2017-18 | 1,230 | 85 | 14.5:1 | 51% (630) |
| 2015-16 | 1,275 | 82 | 15.6:1 | 50% (640) |
| 2010-11 | 1,207 | 81 | 14.9:1 | 44% (537) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY.
About PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY
PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY is one of the public schools in BROOKLYN, New York. It is a large elementary school. The school covers pre-K through 8 and reported 918 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 107% above the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22, PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY is one of 40 schools. The district enrolls 30,207 students.
Black students make up 26% of enrollment at PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY, the largest share of any group. The remaining shares are 25% White, 25% Asian, 20% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. That is in line with Kings County, where about 28% of residents are Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 77%.
Staffing at PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY comes to 62.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.8:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY counts 61% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 79% average for public schools in Kings County is 18 points.
PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 72% of New York public elementary schools.
A school with PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 52.5%. PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY scores 60.3%, 7.8 points above that line.
For Kings County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. There are 583 public schools in the county, enrolling about 291,697, PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY among them.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, PS 222 KATHERINE R SNYDER, is the closest to PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY. PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY comes in 4th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment was 918 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 1,022.
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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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- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
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- 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 222 KATHERINE R SNYDER0.5 mi · 706
- PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL0.6 mi · 514
- JHS 278 MARINE PARK0.7 mi · 841
- HEBREW LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 614
- PS 236 MILL BASIN0.9 mi · 599
- PS 119 AMERSFORT1.0 mi · 393
Frequently asked questions
About PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARYHow large is PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY?
PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY enrolls approximately 918 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY serve?
PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY is approximately 14.8:1 (62 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY?
At PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY, the student body is approximately 25% White, 20% Hispanic, 26% Black, 25% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY in?
PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY 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.