Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 425 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18·NCES 360009602721
PS 219 KENNEDY-KING
1060 CLARKSON AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11212 · (929) 397-9566 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 27% 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.
- 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
11.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
302 students
DISTRICT 86% · 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 | 50 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
42.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +18.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +16.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 33.0% |
% 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
34.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% 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 219 KENNEDY-KING
PS 219 KENNEDY-KING's state test result (34.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 219 KENNEDY-KING this school | 334 | 90.4% | 34.1% |
| PS 80 THURGOOD MARSHALL MAGNET SCHOOL OF MULTIMEDIA (THE) JAMAICA | 363 | 88.7% | 52.0% |
| PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS BROOKLYN | 286 | 88.8% | 64.6% |
| GOLDIE MAPLE ACADEMY ARVERNE | 309 | 94.2% | 25.4% |
| PS 272 CURTIS ESTABROOK BROOKLYN | 365 | 94.8% | 30.9% |
| PS 346 ABE STARK BROOKLYN | 385 | 88.8% | 46.9% |
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 219 KENNEDY-KING ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.1% | #1,875 of 2,335 | #244 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,477 of 2,342 ▲ 422 | #213 of 290 ▲ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,693 of 2,343 ▲ 336 | #243 of 290 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #1,775 of 2,585 | #190 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #1,055 of 2,338 | #91 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.3% | #1,556 of 2,388 | #199 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.4% | #398 of 2,534 | #103 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.3% | #154 of 1,757 | #39 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
334
+35 (+12%) vs 2020
-55% since 2010-11, when it was 747
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 334 | 29.1 | 11.5:1 | 90% (302) |
| 2023-24 | 278 | 25 | 11.1:1 | 90% (251) |
| 2022-23 | 298 | 20 | 14.9:1 | 82% (244) |
| 2020-21 | 299 | 27 | 11.1:1 | 81% (243) |
| 2017-18 | 533 | 39 | 13.7:1 | 79% (420) |
| 2015-16 | 557 | 38 | 14.7:1 | 67% (375) |
| 2010-11 | 747 | 29 | 25.8:1 | 83% (619) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 219 KENNEDY-KING.
About PS 219 KENNEDY-KING
The public elementary school PS 219 KENNEDY-KING is located in BROOKLYN, New York. Total enrollment is 334 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
The 34 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 enroll 11,062 students altogether, PS 219 KENNEDY-KING among them.
At PS 219 KENNEDY-KING, 74% of students are Black. After that, the student body is 21% Hispanic and 4% White. Census figures show Kings County is about 28% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 219 KENNEDY-KING scores 41%.
Staffing at PS 219 KENNEDY-KING comes to 29.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.5:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 1.4 more students per teacher than here. PS 219 KENNEDY-KING counts 90% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Kings County report 79%.
PS 219 KENNEDY-KING earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 27% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 219 KENNEDY-KING posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 34.1%, compared with a predicted 41.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Kings County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. PS 219 KENNEDY-KING shares Kings County with 582 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, LAMAD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. PS 219 KENNEDY-KING is 7th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment rose 12% over 4 years, reaching 334 in 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 #18
- PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOLElementary · 854 students
- PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOLElementary · 666 students
- PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALLElementary · 560 students
- PS 66Elementary · 527 students
- IS 285 MEYER LEVINMiddle · 512 students
- ACADEMY FOR CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENTHigh · 432 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
- LAMAD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.0 mi · 165
- EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 164
- MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY0.2 mi · 156
- BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL 60.2 mi · 141
- PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS0.3 mi · 286
- UNCOMMON KINGS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.3 mi · 1,262
Frequently asked questions
About PS 219 KENNEDY-KINGWhat is the total enrollment at PS 219 KENNEDY-KING?
PS 219 KENNEDY-KING enrolls approximately 334 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 219 KENNEDY-KING serve?
PS 219 KENNEDY-KING serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 219 KENNEDY-KING have?
PS 219 KENNEDY-KING employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 219 KENNEDY-KING?
Student demographics at PS 219 KENNEDY-KING are roughly 4% White, 21% Hispanic, 74% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is PS 219 KENNEDY-KING public or private?
PS 219 KENNEDY-KING is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18.
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