Enrollment
257
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14·NCES 360011902764
PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY
108 MONTROSE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 · (718) 384-0889 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL257 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
7.5:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
226 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 50 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 32 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 32 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (39).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
34.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY
PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY's state test result (34.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY this school | 257 | 87.9% | 34.9% |
| BRONX LITTLE SCHOOL BRONX | 315 | 91.4% | 46.8% |
| PS 938 BROOKLYN | 238 | 91.6% | 67.8% |
| PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA NEW YORK | 306 | 94.1% | 68.8% |
| BROOKLYN RISE CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 336 | 89.6% | 45.4% |
| ARCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRONX | 309 | 94.2% | 30.3% |
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 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.9% | #1,837 of 2,335 | #239 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,873 of 2,342 ▼ 444 | #245 of 290 ▼ 52 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,945 of 2,343 ▼ 184 | #263 of 290 ▼ 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 257 | #2,206 of 2,585 | #234 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.5:1 | #39 of 2,338 | #9 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.9% | #1,327 of 2,388 | #172 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.9% | #501 of 2,534 | #144 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -46.9% | #56 of 1,757 | #21 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
257
-104 (-29%) vs 2020
-68% since 2010-11, when it was 813
Student : Teacher
7.5:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 257 | 34.1 | 7.5:1 | 88% (226) |
| 2023-24 | 256 | 25 | 10.2:1 | 88% (226) |
| 2022-23 | 284 | 24.4 | 11.6:1 | 84% (239) |
| 2020-21 | 361 | 28 | 12.9:1 | 82% (297) |
| 2017-18 | 484 | 34 | 14.2:1 | 79% (383) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 39 | 16.4:1 | 63% (401) |
| 2010-11 | 813 | 49 | 16.6:1 | 77% (628) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY.
About PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY
PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY is a public elementary school run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 in BROOKLYN, New York. It educates 257 students in pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students.
A total of 38 schools make up NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14, with 15,288 students enrolled.
Hispanic students make up a majority at PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY, at 70%. Next come 15% Black, 11% Asian, and 3% White. That compares with about 19% Hispanic among all Kings County residents. The school's diversity index is 48%, meaning two students picked at random have a 48% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reports 34.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 7.5 students per teacher. That is 5.3 students per teacher below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 88% of students. The gap from the 79% average for public schools in Kings County is 9 points.
The allk12 Grade for PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY is C. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 29% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY scores 34.9% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 42.6%.
Kings County has about 2,631,580 residents, and the median household income is $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. In all, Kings County has 583 public schools and roughly 291,697 students.
The closest public school to PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY is BROWNSVILLE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY is behind the 56.7% nearby average, ranking 7th of 9.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 29% from 2020-21, when PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY had 361 students, to 2024-25, when it had 257. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 7.5:1, from 12.9:1.
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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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- 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
- BROWNSVILLE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 202
- WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY (THE)0.2 mi · 424
- BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL (THE)0.2 mi · 772
- LYONS COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 362
- PS 18 EDWARD BUSH0.3 mi · 149
- IS 318 EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS0.3 mi · 1,028
Frequently asked questions
About PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAYHow large is PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY?
PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY enrolls approximately 257 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY?
Approximately 7.5:1 students per teacher at PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY.
How diverse is PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY?
PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY reports a student body of 3% White, 70% Hispanic, 15% Black, 11% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY?
PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.