Enrollment
230
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14·NCES 360011902116
PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON
545 WILLOUGHBY AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 · (718) 387-0375 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL230 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 40% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest 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
8.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
214 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 22% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 23 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 23 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (31).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
48.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 52.0% |
% 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
39.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% 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 23 CARTER G WOODSON
PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON's state test result (39.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON this school | 230 | 93.0% | 39.3% |
| PS 245 BROOKLYN | 228 | 89.9% | 50.3% |
| PS 59 THE DAWN BEST SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 265 | 95.1% | 26.1% |
| PS 149 SOJOURNER TRUTH NEW YORK | 249 | 94.4% | 35.9% |
| PS 202 ERNEST S JENKYNS BROOKLYN | 249 | 92.8% | 29.7% |
| PS 133 FRED R MOORE NEW YORK | 225 | 93.8% | 47.8% |
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 23 CARTER G WOODSON ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #1,657 of 2,335 | #230 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,518 of 2,342 ▼ 304 | #219 of 290 ▼ 53 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,596 of 2,343 ▲ 159 | #233 of 290 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 230 | #2,288 of 2,585 | #244 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.8:1 | #158 of 2,338 | #19 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.5% | #1,123 of 2,388 | #140 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.0% | #295 of 2,534 | #69 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.4% | #600 of 1,757 | #130 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
230
-6 (-3%) vs 2020
-25% since 2010-11, when it was 308
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 9.1:1
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 | 230 | 26 | 8.8:1 | 93% (214) |
| 2023-24 | 221 | 24 | 9.2:1 | 92% (203) |
| 2022-23 | 222 | 23 | 9.7:1 | 91% (201) |
| 2020-21 | 236 | 26 | 9.1:1 | 94% (222) |
| 2017-18 | 289 | 25 | 11.6:1 | 90% (261) |
| 2015-16 | 292 | 24 | 12.2:1 | 83% (242) |
| 2010-11 | 308 | 22 | 14.0:1 | 94% (290) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON.
About PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON
PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON is a small elementary school in New York, located in BROOKLYN. There are 230 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5. The school is 48% below the average for elementary schools in New York.
PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON is run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14, whose 38 schools enroll 15,288 students.
The largest group at PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON is Hispanic students, at 50%. The school is also 48% Black. That is higher than the 19% Hispanic share among all Kings County residents. The diversity index for PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON is 53%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.8:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. The school has 93% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 79% average for public schools in Kings County is 14 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON lands at C+, ahead of 40% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 40.8% at PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 39.3%.
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 the poverty rate is about 15%. The county has 583 public schools and about 291,697 students.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL (THE), is the closest to PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON comes in 6th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON is City: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 230, down from 236 in 2020-21.
Anyone can start a thread about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 #14
- IS 318 EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOSMiddle · 1,028 students
- BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL (THE)High · 772 students
- WILLIAMSBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOLHigh · 667 students
- PS 31 SAMUEL F DUPONTElementary · 644 students
- PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGOElementary · 636 students
- WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNHigh · 622 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
- BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL (THE)0.0 mi · 203
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 10.2 mi · 919
- PS 3680.2 mi · 236
- PS 297 ABRAHAM STOCKTON0.2 mi · 196
- PS 256 BENJAMIN BANNEKER0.3 mi · 178
- PS 54 DETECTIVE RAFAEL RAMOS0.3 mi · 180
Frequently asked questions
About PS 23 CARTER G WOODSONHow large is PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON?
PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON enrolls approximately 230 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON have?
PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON?
At PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON, the student body is approximately 2% White, 50% Hispanic, 48% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON public or private?
PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14.
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