Enrollment
199
Elementary
DISTRICT 381 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19·NCES 360012002710
PS 213 NEW LOTS
580 HEGEMAN AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11207 · (718) 257-4034 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL199 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
9.5:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
186 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 | 49 | 25% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 21 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 24 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 20 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (20).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
32.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
54.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +30.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 30 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 17.0% | 24.0% |
% 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
29.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 213 NEW LOTS
PS 213 NEW LOTS's state test result (29.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 213 NEW LOTS this school | 199 | 93.5% | 29.9% |
| PS 93 WILLIAM H PRESCOTT BROOKLYN | 179 | 96.6% | 21.8% |
| BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS ALBANY | 240 | 90.8% | 51.9% |
| PS 256 BENJAMIN BANNEKER BROOKLYN | 178 | 94.9% | 25.2% |
| PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC BUFFALO | 250 | 94.4% | 34.9% |
| PS 243 WEEKSVILLE SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 199 | 94.5% | 23.3% |
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 213 NEW LOTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #2,012 of 2,335 | #258 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,280 of 2,342 ▲ 848 | #193 of 290 ▲ 75 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,067 of 2,343 ▲ 149 | #274 of 290 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 199 | #2,390 of 2,585 | #265 of 306 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.5% | #273 of 2,534 | #64 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.5% | #237 of 1,757 | #60 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
199
-26 (-12%) vs 2020
-59% since 2010-11, when it was 490
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 199 | 21 | 9.5:1 | 93% (186) |
| 2023-24 | 187 | 18 | 10.4:1 | 95% (177) |
| 2022-23 | 218 | 19.3 | 11.3:1 | 92% (201) |
| 2020-21 | 225 | 21 | 10.7:1 | 92% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 295 | 14 | 21.1:1 | 94% (276) |
| 2015-16 | 367 | 24 | 15.3:1 | 85% (312) |
| 2010-11 | 490 | 34 | 14.4:1 | 95% (464) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 213 NEW LOTS.
About PS 213 NEW LOTS
PS 213 NEW LOTS is the name of a small elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. It reported 199 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 55% lower.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 enrolls 18,619 students, and its 53 schools include PS 213 NEW LOTS.
The largest group at PS 213 NEW LOTS is Black students, at 57%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 10% White, 10% Asian, and 2% Native American. By comparison, Kings County residents are about 28% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 213 NEW LOTS scores 62%.
Its ratio of 9.5:1 is based on 21 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 93% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Kings County report 79%.
PS 213 NEW LOTS holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 21% of New York public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for PS 213 NEW LOTS is 40.6%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 29.9%.
In Kings County, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Across Kings County, 583 public schools serve about 291,697 students.
COLLEGIATE ACADEMY-MATH-PERSONAL AWA is the nearest public school to PS 213 NEW LOTS, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 29.9% is below the 39.4% average for nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 26 students, from 225 to 199. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (9.5:1) than in 2020-21 (10.7:1).
This page is set up for the PS 213 NEW LOTS community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. 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 #19
- TRANSIT TECH CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 795 students
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- PS 159 ISAAC PITKINElementary · 661 students
- PS 108 SAL ABBRACCIAMENTOElementary · 649 students
- EAST NEW YORK FAMILY ACADEMYHigh · 610 students
- PS 7 ABRAHAM LINCOLNElementary · 589 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
- COLLEGIATE ACADEMY-MATH-PERSONAL AWA0.1 mi · 85
- PS 360.2 mi · 422
- EAST NEW YORK FAMILY ACADEMY0.2 mi · 610
- PS 40.2 mi · 385
- ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 630
- VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 161
Frequently asked questions
About PS 213 NEW LOTSHow large is PS 213 NEW LOTS?
PS 213 NEW LOTS enrolls approximately 199 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 213 NEW LOTS serve?
PS 213 NEW LOTS serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 213 NEW LOTS?
Approximately 9.5:1 students per teacher at PS 213 NEW LOTS.
What is the student diversity at PS 213 NEW LOTS?
Student demographics at PS 213 NEW LOTS are roughly 10% White, 20% Hispanic, 57% Black, 10% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 213 NEW LOTS public or private?
PS 213 NEW LOTS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.