Enrollment
335
Elementary
DISTRICT 425 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18·NCES 360009602745
PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES
9301 AVE B, BROOKLYN, NY 11236 · (718) 346-8103 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL335 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
11.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
286 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 | 49 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 86% larger than its 5th grade class (36).
Student demographics
31%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
66.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +22.0pp since 2023
Math
79.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +26.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 26 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 53.0% |
% 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
55.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 233 LANGSTON HUGHES
PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES's state test result (55.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES this school | 335 | 85.4% | 55.7% |
| PS 279 HERMAN SCHREIBER BROOKLYN | 276 | 85.1% | 54.3% |
| PS 198 BROOKLYN | 327 | 85.9% | 50.4% |
| FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 404 | 87.6% | 61.7% |
| PS 244 RICHARD R GREEN BROOKLYN | 315 | 86.7% | 66.1% |
| CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL JAMAICA | 297 | 80.1% | 39.8% |
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 233 LANGSTON HUGHES ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #930 of 2,335 | #143 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #366 of 2,342 ▲ 793 | #61 of 290 ▲ 99 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #670 of 2,343 ▲ 426 | #119 of 290 ▲ 47 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 335 | #1,764 of 2,585 | #188 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #914 of 2,338 | #78 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.8% | #1,863 of 2,388 | #229 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.4% | #598 of 2,534 | #173 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.4% | #384 of 1,757 | #86 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
335
+34 (+11%) vs 2020
-49% since 2010-11, when it was 658
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 335 | 30 | 11.2:1 | 85% (286) |
| 2023-24 | 320 | 29.7 | 10.8:1 | 82% (262) |
| 2022-23 | 297 | 25.8 | 11.5:1 | 82% (243) |
| 2020-21 | 301 | 28 | 10.8:1 | 81% (245) |
| 2017-18 | 455 | 34 | 13.4:1 | 86% (392) |
| 2015-16 | 517 | 40 | 12.9:1 | 86% (444) |
| 2010-11 | 658 | 47 | 14.0:1 | 89% (583) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES.
About PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES
PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES is a small elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18. The latest federal count shows 335 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York, enrollment here is 24% lower.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 runs PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES along with 33 other schools, enrolling 11,062 students in total.
Black students are the large majority at PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES, with 82% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 11% Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 2% White. In Kings County overall, about 28% of residents are Black. PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES has a diversity index of 31%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers at PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES in 2024-25, for a ratio of 11.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 85%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The model predicts 43.6% for a school in New York with PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES's free or reduced-price lunch share. PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES posts 55.7%.
Kings County has these Census figures: median household income is about $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES is among the 583 public schools in Kings County.
Nearest public school: NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (THE), less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES holds at least 8 other public schools. PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES ranks 4th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 55.7% against a local average of 48.4%.
PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 301 in 2020-21 and 335 in 2024-25, an 11% gain.
Discussions about PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (THE)0.0 mi · 247
- CULTURAL ARTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL AT SPRING CREEK0.4 mi · 221
- PS 660.4 mi · 527
- PS 165 IDA POSNER0.4 mi · 213
- IS 285 MEYER LEVIN0.4 mi · 512
- METROPOLITAN DIPLOMA PLUS HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 153
Frequently asked questions
About PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHESHow many students attend PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES?
PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES enrolls approximately 335 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES serve?
PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES have?
PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES?
At PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES, the student body is approximately 2% White, 11% Hispanic, 82% Black.
Is PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES public or private?
PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18.
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