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Which teacher or staff member at PS 253 deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
955
Elementary
DISTRICT 663 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21·NCES 360015202767
PS 253
2953 BRIGHTON 6TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11235 · (718) 332-3331 · Kings County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL955 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% 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.
- 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
14.6:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
868 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 148 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 165 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 166 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 162 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 161 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 149 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (148) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (149).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
72.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 81.0% |
% 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
69.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% 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 28 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 253
PS 253's state test result (69.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 253 this school | 955 | 90.9% | 69.2% |
| PS 177 MARLBORO (THE) BROOKLYN | 883 | 89.8% | 58.0% |
| PS 186 DR IRVING A GLADSTONE BROOKLYN | 973 | 84.8% | 59.7% |
| PS 226 ALFRED DE B MASON BROOKLYN | 877 | 85.7% | 50.9% |
| PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 1,209 | 91.0% | 56.4% |
| PS 95 GRAVESEND (THE) BROOKLYN | 916 | 83.1% | 65.9% |
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 253 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #429 of 2,335 | #64 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #328 of 2,342 ▼ 49 | #55 of 290 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #457 of 2,343 ▼ 28 | #88 of 290 ▼ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 955 | #62 of 2,585 | #17 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,972 of 2,338 | #197 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.2% | #309 of 2,388 | #41 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.9% | #372 of 2,534 | #97 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.7% | #402 of 606 | #40 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
955
+95 (+11%) vs 2020
+36% since 2010-11, when it was 703
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 955 | 65.5 | 14.6:1 | 91% (868) |
| 2023-24 | 913 | 62.5 | 14.6:1 | 90% (826) |
| 2022-23 | 875 | 62 | 14.1:1 | 84% (733) |
| 2020-21 | 860 | 64 | 13.4:1 | 85% (729) |
| 2017-18 | 912 | 67 | 13.6:1 | 84% (764) |
| 2015-16 | 870 | 66 | 13.2:1 | 70% (607) |
| 2010-11 | 703 | 48 | 14.7:1 | 91% (639) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 253.
About PS 253
PS 253, a high-enrollment elementary school, is located in BROOKLYN, New York. Enrolled students number 955 students, in kindergarten through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
The district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21, has 33,610 students enrolled across 40 schools.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at PS 253. The largest is White students, at 38%. Other students are 33% Asian and 26% Hispanic. For comparison, Kings County is about 38% White. The school's diversity index is 68%, meaning two students picked at random have a 68% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at PS 253 total 65.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.6:1. That is 1.7 students per teacher above the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 91%. The gap from the 79% average for public schools in Kings County is 12 points.
The allk12 Grade for PS 253 is A. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 89% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 41.6%. PS 253 posts 69.2%, 27.6 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Kings County this way: 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.
WILLIAM E GRADY CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of PS 253, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, PS 253 is ahead of the 59.2% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 7.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 11% from 2020-21, when PS 253 had 860 students, to 2024-25, when it had 955. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 14.6:1, from 13.4:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at PS 253. 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 #21
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,210 students
- JOHN DEWEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,209 students
- IS 228 DAVID A BOODYMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 98 BAY ACADEMYMiddle · 1,435 students
- MARK TWAIN IS 239 FOR THE GIFTED AND TALENTEDMiddle · 1,295 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
- WILLIAM E GRADY CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 646
- PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE)0.3 mi · 1,049
- PS 7710.3 mi · 539
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 2,210
- PS 3700.4 mi · 230
- PS 209 MARGARET MEAD0.5 mi · 702
Frequently asked questions
About PS 253How many students attend PS 253?
PS 253 enrolls approximately 955 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PS 253 serve?
PS 253 serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does PS 253 have?
PS 253 employs 65 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 253?
Student demographics at PS 253 are roughly 38% White, 26% Hispanic, 1% Black, 33% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is PS 253 public or private?
PS 253 is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.