Enrollment
369
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17·NCES 360009502756
PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON
976 PRESIDENT ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11225 · (718) 636-4725 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL369 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% of New York public elementary schools
- A-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
17.6:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
267 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 83 | 22% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
72.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 | 74.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 68.0% |
% 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
66.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON
PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON's state test result (66.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON this school | 369 | 72.4% | 66.0% |
| SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY ROCHESTER | 306 | 72.9% | 22.9% |
| PS/MS 147 RONALD MCNAIR CAMBRIA HEIGHTS | 427 | 73.8% | 30.2% |
| MEACHEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 343 | 78.1% | 21.3% |
| VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 346 | 78.3% | 16.8% |
| PS 195 WILLIAM HABERLE ROSEDALE | 321 | 74.5% | 39.6% |
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 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #524 of 2,335 | #83 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #613 of 2,342 ▼ 1 | #111 of 290 ▼ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #392 of 2,343 ▼ 36 | #75 of 290 ▼ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 369 | #1,548 of 2,585 | #175 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #2,242 of 2,338 | #237 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.7% | #1,337 of 2,388 | #176 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.4% | #940 of 2,534 | #239 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.6% | #294 of 1,757 | #71 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
369
-22 (-6%) vs 2020
-40% since 2010-11, when it was 612
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 369 | 21 | 17.6:1 | 72% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 369 | 20.5 | 18.0:1 | 74% (274) |
| 2022-23 | 365 | 25.1 | 14.6:1 | 78% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 391 | 26 | 15.0:1 | 80% (314) |
| 2017-18 | 524 | 35 | 15.0:1 | 88% (460) |
| 2015-16 | 548 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 87% (475) |
| 2010-11 | 612 | 45 | 13.6:1 | 92% (563) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON.
About PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON
BROOKLYN, New York, is home to PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON, a low-enrollment elementary school. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 369 students enrolled.
PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON is one of 49 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, which enrolls 16,990 students in total.
More than half of enrollment at PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON is Black: 70%. Next come 12% White, 11% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 28% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON scores 48%.
There are about 17.6 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON, which has 21. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON is about 72%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
In New York, PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 66.0% actual against a predicted 48.4%.
The school's county is Kings County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Kings County's 583 public schools enroll about 291,697 students and include PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON.
CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON is 2nd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
In 2020-21, PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON enrolled 391 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 369. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.0:1 to 17.6:1.
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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
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- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
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Nearby schools
- CLARA BARTON HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,325
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT0.1 mi · 245
- INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT PROSPECT HEIGHTS0.1 mi · 303
- BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR MUSIC & THEATER0.1 mi · 202
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP (THE)0.1 mi · 213
- EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 153
Frequently asked questions
About PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTONHow large is PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON?
PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON enrolls approximately 369 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON?
At PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON, the student body is approximately 12% White, 11% Hispanic, 70% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON public or private?
PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.