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Enrollment
663
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17·NCES 360009502763
PS 249 CATON (THE)
18 MARLBOROUGH RD, BROOKLYN, NY 11226 · (718) 282-8828 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL663 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% 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.
- 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
11.8:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
556 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 33 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
64%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
89.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +20.0pp since 2023
Math
91.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 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 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.0% | 91.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 88.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
76.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+32.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 32 points, placing it in New York's top 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 249 CATON (THE)
PS 249 CATON (THE)'s state test result (76.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 249 CATON (THE) this school | 663 | 83.9% | 76.6% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX 4 BRONX | 590 | 83.2% | 95.5% |
| PS 121 THROOP BRONX | 601 | 83.5% | 43.8% |
| ANNA MURRAY-DOUGLASS ACADEMY ROCHESTER | 741 | 77.2% | 19.8% |
| PS 76 BENNINGTON SCHOOL (THE) BRONX | 583 | 87.0% | 46.0% |
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 758 | 87.6% | 58.3% |
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 249 CATON (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.6% | #227 of 2,335 | #29 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #115 of 2,342 ▲ 19 | #22 of 290 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #91 of 2,343 ▲ 177 | #17 of 290 ▲ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 663 | #331 of 2,585 | #68 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #1,202 of 2,338 | #101 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.6% | #530 of 2,388 | #77 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.9% | #652 of 2,534 | #182 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.1% | #469 of 1,757 | #105 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
663
-144 (-18%) vs 2020
-12% since 2010-11, when it was 750
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 663 | 56 | 11.8:1 | 84% (556) |
| 2023-24 | 699 | 53 | 13.2:1 | 85% (596) |
| 2022-23 | 710 | 51 | 13.9:1 | 79% (562) |
| 2020-21 | 807 | 46 | 17.5:1 | 76% (612) |
| 2017-18 | 873 | 59 | 14.8:1 | 78% (678) |
| 2015-16 | 895 | 54 | 16.6:1 | 66% (587) |
| 2010-11 | 750 | 46 | 16.3:1 | 78% (587) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 249 CATON (THE).
About PS 249 CATON (THE)
The public elementary school PS 249 CATON (THE) is located in BROOKLYN, New York. It has an enrollment of 663 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 50% bigger than average.
District-wide, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 has 49 schools and 16,990 students.
Hispanic students account for 45% of enrollment at PS 249 CATON (THE), more than any other group. The remaining students are 39% Black, 7% White, and 6% Asian. Among people living in Kings County, the Hispanic share is about 19%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 249 CATON (THE) scores 64%.
The school lists 56 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.8:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 556 students, or 84%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 249 CATON (THE) lands at A+, ahead of 95% of New York public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations places PS 249 CATON (THE) in the top 10% of New York schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 32.4 points above it (76.6% actual, 44.1% predicted).
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Kings County show that the median household earns about $80,263 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Kings County has 583 public schools with about 291,697 students, including PS 249 CATON (THE).
A public school about 0.3 miles away, BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY, is the closest to PS 249 CATON (THE). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 56.3%, lower than PS 249 CATON (THE)'s 76.6%.
Locale data from NCES put PS 249 CATON (THE) inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 663, compared with 807 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 17.5:1 to 11.8:1.
This page is set up for the PS 249 CATON (THE) community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY0.3 mi · 634
- PS 2450.4 mi · 228
- MS 8390.4 mi · 310
- PS 8890.4 mi · 423
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR SERVICE AND LEARNING AT ERASMUS0.4 mi · 249
- ACADEMY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM0.4 mi · 402
Frequently asked questions
About PS 249 CATON (THE)How many students attend PS 249 CATON (THE)?
PS 249 CATON (THE) enrolls approximately 663 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 249 CATON (THE) serve?
PS 249 CATON (THE) serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 249 CATON (THE)?
Approximately 11.8:1 students per teacher at PS 249 CATON (THE).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 249 CATON (THE)?
At PS 249 CATON (THE), the student body is approximately 7% White, 45% Hispanic, 39% Black, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is PS 249 CATON (THE) public or private?
PS 249 CATON (THE) 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.