Enrollment
339
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23·NCES 360012102805
PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ
85 WATKINS ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11212 · (718) 495-7793 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL339 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest 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
12.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
332 students
DISTRICT 94% · 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 | 57 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
27.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -7.0pp 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 27 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
28.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ
PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ's state test result (28.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ this school | 339 | 97.9% | 28.3% |
| PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE BROOKLYN | 331 | 95.2% | 51.9% |
| BROOKLYN GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 355 | 96.6% | 42.0% |
| PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS STATEN ISLAND | 342 | 98.5% | 34.5% |
| PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY BROOKLYN | 313 | 92.7% | 33.6% |
| PS 184 NEWPORT BROOKLYN | 395 | 97.2% | 18.5% |
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 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #2,073 of 2,335 | #263 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #2,151 of 2,342 ▼ 264 | #276 of 290 ▼ 35 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,947 of 2,343 ▲ 90 | #265 of 290 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 339 | #1,738 of 2,585 | #185 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #1,393 of 2,338 | #120 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.4% | #1,312 of 2,388 | #168 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.9% | #45 of 2,534 | #10 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +27.4% | #90 of 606 | #20 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
339
+56 (+20%) vs 2020
-41% since 2010-11, when it was 574
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
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 | 339 | 27.5 | 12.3:1 | 98% (332) |
| 2023-24 | 333 | 25.9 | 12.9:1 | 97% (323) |
| 2022-23 | 330 | 23.8 | 13.9:1 | 97% (320) |
| 2020-21 | 283 | 22 | 12.9:1 | 94% (265) |
| 2017-18 | 266 | 13 | 20.5:1 | 100% (265) |
| 2015-16 | 221 | 20 | 11.1:1 | 98% (217) |
| 2010-11 | 574 | 43 | 13.3:1 | 82% (468) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ.
About PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ
PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ is a low-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in BROOKLYN, New York. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 339 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 23% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 has a total of 28 schools and 7,257 students, PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ among them.
Federal enrollment data show PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ is 62% Black. Enrollment also includes 37% Hispanic. The school's Black share is 34 points above the 28% share among Kings County residents. A diversity index of 48% means there is a 48% chance two randomly chosen students at PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ are from different groups.
PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ has a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1, with 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is close to this figure. The school has 98% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Kings County average 79%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ outscored 18%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ is 10.7 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Looking at the county, Kings County, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. The county has 583 public schools and about 291,697 students.
BROWNSVILLE COLLABORATIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits less than a tenth of a mile from PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ comes in 5th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 283 to 339, a 20% rise.
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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 #23
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN IIHigh · 662 students
- BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 512 students
- PS 156 WAVERLYElementary · 421 students
- PS 184 NEWPORTElementary · 395 students
- BROOKLYN LANDMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 378 students
- PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAYElementary · 313 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
- BROWNSVILLE COLLABORATIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 271
- CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 297
- UNCOMMON BROWNSVILLE NORTH CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.1 mi · 1,313
- PS 150 CHRISTOPHER0.2 mi · 97
- GREGORY JOCKO JACKSON-SPORTS-ARTS0.3 mi · 203
- PS 327 DR ROSE B ENGLISH0.3 mi · 231
Frequently asked questions
About PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZHow large is PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ?
PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ enrolls approximately 339 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ serve?
PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ is approximately 12.3:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ?
At PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ, the student body is approximately 1% White, 37% Hispanic, 62% Black.
Is PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ public or private?
PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23.
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