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How has PS 236 MILL BASIN changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
599
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22·NCES 360015302752
PS 236 MILL BASIN
6302 AVE U, BROOKLYN, NY 11234 · (718) 444-6969 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL599 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% 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.
- 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
16.6:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
270 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 44 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
78.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
80.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 76.0% |
% 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
72.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 236 MILL BASIN
PS 236 MILL BASIN's state test result (72.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 236 MILL BASIN this school | 599 | 45.1% | 72.8% |
| WINDERMERE BLVD SCHOOL AMHERST | 738 | 44.7% | 51.0% |
| MARYVALE PRIMARY SCHOOL CHEEKTOWAGA | 568 | 53.0% | N/A |
| MAPLEMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AMHERST | 488 | 44.9% | 57.9% |
| PS 30 WESTERLEIGH STATEN ISLAND | 689 | 41.1% | 75.6% |
| PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED BUFFALO | 583 | 39.3% | 72.1% |
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 236 MILL BASIN ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #310 of 2,335 | #41 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #352 of 2,342 ▲ 45 | #60 of 290 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #299 of 2,343 ▼ 25 | #56 of 290 ▼ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 599 | #465 of 2,585 | #82 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #2,207 of 2,338 | #228 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.7% | #279 of 2,388 | #34 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.1% | #1,547 of 2,534 | #270 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.5% | #303 of 606 | #32 of 49 |
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
599
+36 (+6%) vs 2020
-6% since 2010-11, when it was 639
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 599 | 36 | 16.6:1 | 45% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 562 | 34.7 | 16.2:1 | 43% (239) |
| 2022-23 | 572 | 36 | 15.9:1 | 40% (228) |
| 2020-21 | 563 | 40 | 14.1:1 | 41% (233) |
| 2017-18 | 552 | 35 | 15.8:1 | 48% (263) |
| 2015-16 | 579 | 35 | 16.5:1 | 43% (247) |
| 2010-11 | 639 | 44 | 14.5:1 | 43% (277) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 236 MILL BASIN.
About PS 236 MILL BASIN
PS 236 MILL BASIN serves students in BROOKLYN, New York, as a mid-sized elementary school. It reported 599 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 is the local district for PS 236 MILL BASIN. It runs 40 schools with 30,207 students.
The largest group at PS 236 MILL BASIN is White students, at 48%. The remaining students are 18% Asian, 18% Black, 13% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Kings County is about 38% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 236 MILL BASIN scores 69%.
There are about 16.6 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at PS 236 MILL BASIN, which has 36. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at PS 236 MILL BASIN is about 45%. That is lower than the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 236 MILL BASIN outscored 88%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
PS 236 MILL BASIN scores 72.8% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 58.4%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Kings County show that the median household earns about $80,263 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Across Kings County, 583 public schools serve about 291,697 students.
HEBREW LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest public school to PS 236 MILL BASIN, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, PS 236 MILL BASIN is ahead of the 56.1% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 8.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
Enrollment increased 6% over 4 years, reaching 599 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.1:1 to 16.6:1.
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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 #22
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMBElementary · 1,508 students
- JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAMMiddle · 1,447 students
- PS 197 KINGS HIGHWAY ACADEMY (THE)Elementary · 1,074 students
- LEON M GOLDSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCESHigh · 952 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
- HEBREW LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 614
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BERGEN BEACH0.3 mi · 977
- JHS 78 ROY H MANN0.3 mi · 662
- PS 312 BERGEN BEACH0.5 mi · 667
- PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL0.8 mi · 514
- PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY0.9 mi · 918
Frequently asked questions
About PS 236 MILL BASINWhat is the total enrollment at PS 236 MILL BASIN?
PS 236 MILL BASIN enrolls approximately 599 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 236 MILL BASIN serve?
PS 236 MILL BASIN serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 236 MILL BASIN have?
PS 236 MILL BASIN employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
How diverse is PS 236 MILL BASIN?
PS 236 MILL BASIN reports a student body of 48% White, 13% Hispanic, 18% Black, 18% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is PS 236 MILL BASIN public or private?
PS 236 MILL BASIN is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.