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Enrollment
925
Elementary
DISTRICT 541 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15·NCES 360009202740
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN
1 ALBEMARLE RD, BROOKLYN, NY 11218 · (718) 437-6135 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL925 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% 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.
- ABeats 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
12.8:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
722 students
DISTRICT 61% · 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 | 119 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 132 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 130 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 116 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 136 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 157 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (132) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (134).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
66.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 62.0% |
% 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
61.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 230 DORIS L COHEN
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN's state test result (61.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 230 DORIS L COHEN this school | 925 | 78.1% | 61.1% |
| PS 63 OLD SOUTH OZONE PARK | 957 | 78.5% | 58.4% |
| PS 205 CLARION BROOKLYN | 1,093 | 79.5% | 69.7% |
| PS 97 HIGHLAWN (THE) BROOKLYN | 882 | 77.6% | 64.7% |
| PS 69 JACKSON HEIGHTS JACKSON HEIGHTS | 764 | 71.3% | 57.0% |
| PS 21 EDWARD HART FLUSHING | 1,086 | 80.3% | 64.6% |
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 230 DORIS L COHEN ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #708 of 2,335 | #107 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #836 of 2,342 no change | #135 of 290 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #510 of 2,343 ▲ 155 | #95 of 290 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 925 | #71 of 2,585 | #18 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,573 of 2,338 | #145 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.4% | #591 of 2,388 | #82 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.1% | #830 of 2,534 | #221 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.8% | #583 of 1,757 | #126 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
925
-131 (-12%) vs 2020
-28% since 2010-11, when it was 1,286
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 925 | 72 | 12.8:1 | 78% (722) |
| 2023-24 | 938 | 70 | 13.4:1 | 78% (732) |
| 2022-23 | 969 | 72 | 13.5:1 | 74% (721) |
| 2020-21 | 1,056 | 74 | 14.3:1 | 72% (757) |
| 2017-18 | 1,168 | 80 | 14.6:1 | 71% (831) |
| 2015-16 | 1,223 | 91 | 13.4:1 | 63% (772) |
| 2010-11 | 1,286 | 89 | 14.4:1 | 77% (985) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 230 DORIS L COHEN.
About PS 230 DORIS L COHEN
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN is an elementary school located in BROOKLYN, New York, in Kings County. The school had 925 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN is in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15, a district with 25,925 students across 51 schools.
Enrollment at PS 230 DORIS L COHEN is mixed, with Asian students the largest group at 50%. The rest of enrollment is 34% Hispanic, 12% White, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Asian share of Kings County's population at about 12%. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 230 DORIS L COHEN belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.
The school has about 12.8 students per teacher and 72 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 12.8:1. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Kings County, the average is about the same, 79%.
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 78% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (61.1%) and its predicted rate (46.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Kings County show that median household income is about $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. PS 230 DORIS L COHEN is one of 583 public schools in Kings County, which together enroll about 291,697 students.
The nearest other public school, BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL - CSD 15.2, is about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. PS 230 DORIS L COHEN is 7th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
The student count in 2024-25 was 925, 12% below the 1,056 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.8:1, from 14.3:1.
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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 #15
- SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,348 students
- PS 321 WILLIAM PENNElementary · 1,305 students
- MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDERMiddle · 1,038 students
- PS 130 PARKSIDE (THE)Elementary · 891 students
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 890 students
- JHS 88 PETER ROUGETMiddle · 843 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 PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL - CSD 15.20.2 mi · 1,259
- PS 130 PARKSIDE (THE)0.3 mi · 891
- PS 179 KENSINGTON0.4 mi · 660
- MS 8390.4 mi · 310
- MS 8900.5 mi · 336
- PS 8890.5 mi · 423
Frequently asked questions
About PS 230 DORIS L COHENHow large is PS 230 DORIS L COHEN?
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN enrolls approximately 925 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 230 DORIS L COHEN an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 230 DORIS L COHEN have?
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN employs 72 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 230 DORIS L COHEN?
Student demographics at PS 230 DORIS L COHEN are roughly 12% White, 34% Hispanic, 2% Black, 50% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is PS 230 DORIS L COHEN in?
PS 230 DORIS L COHEN is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.