Enrollment
194
Elementary
DISTRICT 233 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16·NCES 360009402813
PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE)
794 MONROE ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11221 · (718) 574-2381 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL194 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- BBeats 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
10.2:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
167 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 | 34 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 28 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 14 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 32% larger than its 5th grade class (25).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +38.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +22.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 38 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 22 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 28.0% |
% 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
42.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% 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 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE)
PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE)'s state test result (42.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) this school | 194 | 86.1% | 42.5% |
| BROWNSVILLE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 202 | 87.1% | 90.0% |
| GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 237 | 85.2% | 29.0% |
| SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL II BRONX | 248 | 91.5% | 90.7% |
| PS 245 BROOKLYN | 228 | 89.9% | 50.3% |
| LA CIMA CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 174 | 87.9% | 48.3% |
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 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.5% | #1,497 of 2,335 | #207 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,429 of 2,342 ▲ 626 | #206 of 290 ▲ 54 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #511 of 2,343 ▲ 1,125 | #96 of 290 ▲ 125 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 194 | #2,402 of 2,585 | #269 of 306 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.1% | #564 of 2,534 | #161 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.9% | #1,476 of 1,757 | #212 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
194
+23 (+13%) vs 2020
-41% since 2010-11, when it was 330
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 9.5:1
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 | 194 | 19 | 10.2:1 | 86% (167) |
| 2023-24 | 193 | 17 | 11.3:1 | 93% (179) |
| 2022-23 | 150 | 15 | 10.0:1 | 85% (128) |
| 2020-21 | 171 | 18 | 9.5:1 | 82% (140) |
| 2017-18 | 204 | 21 | 9.7:1 | 83% (170) |
| 2015-16 | 243 | 26 | 9.3:1 | 78% (189) |
| 2010-11 | 330 | 35 | 9.4:1 | 81% (266) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE).
About PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE)
In BROOKLYN, New York, PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) is a small elementary school. The school has 194 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 56% below average.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 is responsible for 23 schools, PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) included, with 5,175 students in all.
Black students are 53% of those enrolled at PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE). The rest of enrollment is 42% Hispanic and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the Black share of Kings County's population at about 28%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 54%.
The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 167 students, or 86%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) lands at B-, ahead of 45% of New York public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE), the prediction is 43.3% and the result is 42.5%.
For the population of Kings County, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Across Kings County, 583 public schools serve about 291,697 students.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) from the closest public school, UNCOMMON EXCELLENCE GIRLS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) ranks 7th of 9 on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 194, compared with 171 in 2020-21.
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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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- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- UNCOMMON EXCELLENCE GIRLS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.0 mi · 871
- BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 530
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY0.2 mi · 469
- PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIR0.2 mi · 218
- UNCOMMON EXCELLENCE BOYS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.3 mi · 415
- PS 75 MAYDA CORTIELLA0.4 mi · 185
Frequently asked questions
About PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE)How large is PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE)?
PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) enrolls approximately 194 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) have?
PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE)?
Student demographics at PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) are roughly 1% White, 42% Hispanic, 53% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) in?
PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16.
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