Enrollment
293
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22·NCES 360015302854
PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH
2529 GERRITSEN AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11229 · (718) 743-6689 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 82% 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
9.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
177 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 29 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
64%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
77.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 65.0% |
% 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
52.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 277 GERRITSEN BEACH
PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH's state test result (67.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH this school | 293 | 60.4% | 67.2% |
| NAPLES STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 311 | 55.6% | 90.5% |
| PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 272 | 61.4% | 73.4% |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOOL CHEEKTOWAGA | 312 | 58.7% | N/A |
| ETHEL K FYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 392 | 53.8% | 60.5% |
| DAVID B CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 376 | 56.4% | 56.0% |
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 277 GERRITSEN BEACH ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.2% | #482 of 2,335 | #73 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #411 of 2,342 ▲ 314 | #71 of 290 ▲ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #321 of 2,343 ▲ 194 | #60 of 290 ▲ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #2,036 of 2,585 | #211 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.5:1 | #305 of 2,338 | #41 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.8% | #520 of 2,388 | #74 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.4% | #1,152 of 2,534 | #257 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.9% | #284 of 1,757 | #66 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
293
-73 (-20%) vs 2020
-37% since 2010-11, when it was 466
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 293 | 30.8 | 9.5:1 | 60% (177) |
| 2023-24 | 290 | 25.7 | 11.3:1 | 54% (157) |
| 2022-23 | 330 | 26.6 | 12.4:1 | 49% (163) |
| 2020-21 | 366 | 29 | 12.6:1 | 52% (190) |
| 2017-18 | 418 | 32 | 13.1:1 | 52% (217) |
| 2015-16 | 439 | 34 | 12.9:1 | 46% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 466 | 31 | 15.0:1 | 49% (228) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH.
About PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH
PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH sits in BROOKLYN, New York, and is classified as an elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 293 students. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 34% lower.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 serves 30,207 students across 40 schools.
More than half of the students at PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH are White (51%). The rest of enrollment is 26% Asian, 18% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Kings County's population at about 38%. The diversity index for PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH is 64%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 30.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 9.5:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 60% of students at PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Kings County average 79%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH outscored 82%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 52.8%. PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH scores 67.2%.
The county, Kings County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $80,263 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Kings County has 583 public schools with about 291,697 students, including PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH.
About 0.3 miles separate PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH from the closest public school, PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 44.7% on proficiency, and PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH is above that at 67.2%.
The federal government classifies PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH's location as City: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 73 students, from 366 to 293. Federal data show the ratio falling from 12.6:1 to 9.5:1.
The allk12 page for PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH lets the school community talk about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG0.3 mi · 482
- UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED MATH AND SCIENCE III0.5 mi · 283
- ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 479
- PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 180
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SHEEPSHEAD BAY0.5 mi · 219
- JHS 14 SHELL BANK0.5 mi · 469
Frequently asked questions
About PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACHWhat is the total enrollment at PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH?
PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH enrolls approximately 293 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH serve?
PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH is approximately 9.5:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH?
At PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH, the student body is approximately 51% White, 18% Hispanic, 3% Black, 26% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH in?
PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.