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Which teacher or staff member at PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
719
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22·NCES 360015302768
PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
2469 E 18TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11235 · (718) 743-0890 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL719 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% 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
15.7:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
506 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 | 31 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 113 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 116 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 119 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 115 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (114) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (115).
Student demographics
55%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
69.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
73.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 78.0% |
% 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
67.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD's state test result (67.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD this school | 719 | 70.4% | 67.2% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST BROOKLYN | 721 | 64.9% | 93.6% |
| PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN STATEN ISLAND | 599 | 69.9% | 47.3% |
| PS 209 MARGARET MEAD BROOKLYN | 702 | 78.6% | 57.5% |
| PS 255 BARBARA REING SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 800 | 81.5% | 60.4% |
| PS 175 LYNN GROSS DISCOVERY SCHOOL (THE) REGO PARK | 710 | 63.0% | 60.3% |
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 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.2% | #480 of 2,335 | #72 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #586 of 2,342 ▼ 235 | #106 of 290 ▼ 62 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #560 of 2,343 ▼ 76 | #108 of 290 ▼ 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 719 | #244 of 2,585 | #56 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #2,137 of 2,338 | #216 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.5% | #1,029 of 2,388 | #124 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.4% | #978 of 2,534 | #241 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.7% | #1,171 of 1,757 | #191 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
719
+32 (+5%) vs 2020
+15% since 2010-11, when it was 623
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 719 | 45.7 | 15.7:1 | 70% (506) |
| 2023-24 | 711 | 42.7 | 16.7:1 | 69% (492) |
| 2022-23 | 655 | 42.6 | 15.4:1 | 65% (427) |
| 2020-21 | 687 | 46 | 14.9:1 | 54% (372) |
| 2017-18 | 796 | 48 | 16.6:1 | 57% (457) |
| 2015-16 | 777 | 41 | 18.9:1 | 59% (460) |
| 2010-11 | 623 | 48 | 13.0:1 | 65% (408) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD.
About PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD is a public elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. The school's 719 students are in pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 62% higher than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD is one of the 40 schools that make up NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 (30,207 students in total).
White students are the majority at PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD, with 63% of enrollment. Other groups make up 23% Asian, 9% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Kings County as a whole is about 38% White, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its teaching staff equals 45.7 full-time positions, a ratio of 15.7:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 15.7:1 here. Around 70% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is lower than the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
allk12 grades PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD is 18.1 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Kings County show that the median household income is $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Besides PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD, Kings County has 582 other public schools.
PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMB is the public school closest to PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD, about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD places 2nd out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 32 more students in 2024-25.
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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
- PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMB0.5 mi · 1,508
- IS 98 BAY ACADEMY0.5 mi · 1,435
- PS 209 MARGARET MEAD0.6 mi · 702
- PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY0.7 mi · 695
- PS 811 CONNIE LEKAS SCHOOL0.7 mi · 278
- JHS 14 SHELL BANK0.7 mi · 469
Frequently asked questions
About PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLDHow large is PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD?
PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD enrolls approximately 719 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD have?
PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD?
Student demographics at PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD are roughly 63% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 23% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD public or private?
PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD 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.