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Enrollment
1,115
Elementary
DISTRICT 673 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20·NCES 360015102738
PS 229 DYKER
1400 BENSON AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11228 · (718) 236-5447 · Kings County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,115 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest 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
14.1:1
79 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
883 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 | 31 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 121 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 119 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 141 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 127 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 122 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 118 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (118).
Student demographics
57%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
75.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
77.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 77.2% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 75.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
74.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+28.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 28 points, placing it in New York's top 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 229 DYKER
PS 229 DYKER's state test result (74.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 229 DYKER this school | 1,115 | 79.2% | 74.1% |
| PS 204 VINCE LOMBARDI BROOKLYN | 994 | 78.3% | 64.4% |
| PS 101 VERRAZANO (THE) BROOKLYN | 1,113 | 77.7% | 73.6% |
| PS 205 CLARION BROOKLYN | 1,093 | 79.5% | 69.7% |
| PS 176 OVINGTON BROOKLYN | 1,037 | 85.2% | 69.7% |
| PS 173 FRESH MEADOWS FLUSHING | 950 | 71.7% | 71.9% |
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 229 DYKER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.1% | #281 of 2,335 | #37 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #437 of 2,342 ▼ 19 | #75 of 290 ▼ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #370 of 2,343 ▼ 96 | #72 of 290 ▼ 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,115 | #18 of 2,585 | #5 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #1,884 of 2,338 | #184 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.4% | #850 of 2,388 | #112 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.2% | #793 of 2,534 | #212 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.7% | #1,104 of 1,757 | #185 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
1,115
-86 (-7%) vs 2020
+24% since 2010-11, when it was 897
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 1,115 | 79.4 | 14.1:1 | 79% (883) |
| 2023-24 | 1,126 | 71.1 | 15.8:1 | 69% (777) |
| 2022-23 | 1,144 | 74.9 | 15.3:1 | 64% (736) |
| 2020-21 | 1,201 | 76 | 15.8:1 | 62% (740) |
| 2017-18 | 1,249 | 73 | 17.1:1 | 60% (750) |
| 2015-16 | 1,188 | 66 | 18.0:1 | 53% (627) |
| 2010-11 | 897 | 55 | 16.3:1 | 48% (434) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 229 DYKER.
About PS 229 DYKER
Located in BROOKLYN, New York, PS 229 DYKER is a high-enrollment elementary school. The student body numbers 1,115 students, from pre-K through 8. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 152% larger than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 runs PS 229 DYKER along with 47 other schools, enrolling 44,136 students in total.
Asian students are the majority at PS 229 DYKER, with 60% of enrollment. It is also 19% Hispanic and 18% White. Kings County's residents are about 12% Asian, 48 points below the school's share. PS 229 DYKER's diversity index is 57%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal data list 79.4 full-time-equivalent teachers at PS 229 DYKER in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.1:1. That is higher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The lunch program counts 79% of students at PS 229 DYKER as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
PS 229 DYKER is graded A by allk12, scoring above 93% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for PS 229 DYKER is +28.2 points, in the top 10% of New York. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 74.1%, and the predicted rate is 45.9%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Kings County, the median household income is $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 583 public schools in Kings County, enrolling about 291,697 students in all.
The closest public school, PS 163 BATH BEACH, is about 0.4 miles from PS 229 DYKER. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 66.0%; PS 229 DYKER's is 74.1%, ranking 3rd of 8.
NCES describes the area around PS 229 DYKER as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 86 students since 2020-21, to 1,115. The number of students per teacher fell from 15.8 to 14.1 over 4 years.
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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 #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 163 BATH BEACH0.4 mi · 621
- PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS0.4 mi · 433
- PS 204 VINCE LOMBARDI0.4 mi · 994
- MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)0.6 mi · 1,518
- NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 3,236
- SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS AND RESEARCH0.7 mi · 112
Frequently asked questions
About PS 229 DYKERWhat is the total enrollment at PS 229 DYKER?
PS 229 DYKER enrolls approximately 1,115 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does PS 229 DYKER serve?
PS 229 DYKER serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 229 DYKER?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 229 DYKER is approximately 14.1:1 (79 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 229 DYKER?
At PS 229 DYKER, the student body is approximately 18% White, 19% Hispanic, 2% Black, 60% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 229 DYKER public or private?
PS 229 DYKER is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.