Enrollment
374
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22·NCES 360015303387
PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL
1957 NOSTRAND AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11210 · (718) 941-2800 · Kings County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL374 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 41% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest 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
10.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
336 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
51%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +19.0pp since 2023
Math
40.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 41.0% |
% 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
40.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL
PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL's state test result (40.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL this school | 374 | 89.8% | 40.3% |
| PS 181 BROOKFIELD SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 340 | 88.5% | 67.6% |
| PS 80 THURGOOD MARSHALL MAGNET SCHOOL OF MULTIMEDIA (THE) JAMAICA | 363 | 88.7% | 52.0% |
| PS 346 ABE STARK BROOKLYN | 385 | 88.8% | 46.9% |
| PS 251 PAERDEGAT BROOKLYN | 329 | 86.9% | 30.7% |
| RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 301 | 93.4% | 54.6% |
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 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #1,598 of 2,335 | #221 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,854 of 2,342 ▼ 211 | #243 of 290 ▼ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #978 of 2,343 ▲ 290 | #178 of 290 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 374 | #1,525 of 2,585 | #173 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #644 of 2,338 | #59 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.8% | #1,197 of 2,388 | #149 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.8% | #424 of 2,534 | #113 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.2% | #1,071 of 1,757 | #184 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
374
-110 (-23%) vs 2020
-39% since 2010-11, when it was 617
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 374 | 35.3 | 10.6:1 | 90% (336) |
| 2023-24 | 364 | 38.9 | 9.3:1 | 90% (328) |
| 2022-23 | 396 | 33 | 12.0:1 | 90% (356) |
| 2020-21 | 484 | 39 | 12.4:1 | 84% (407) |
| 2017-18 | 421 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 87% (368) |
| 2015-16 | 546 | 36 | 15.2:1 | 89% (486) |
| 2010-11 | 617 | 43 | 14.3:1 | 89% (548) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL.
About PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL
PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is a small elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, administered by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22. Federal data show 374 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 counts 30,207 students in its 40 schools, and PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is one of them.
The largest group at PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is Black students, at 66%. Smaller groups are 23% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 3% White. County-wide, 28% of Kings County residents are Black. The diversity index for PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is 51%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL has 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 10.6:1. The school's 10.6:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 90%. That is higher than the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 41% of New York public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 40.3%; the prediction is 42.0%.
In the surrounding county, Kings County, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL, Kings County has 583 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is closest at less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is 5th among 9 schools close by.
Federal data place PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL had a net loss of 110 students, or 23%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 12.4 to 10.6 over 4 years.
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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
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Nearby schools
- CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 753
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 3,657
- SCHOOL OF SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY0.5 mi · 522
- PS 3150.5 mi · 555
- PS 1980.6 mi · 327
- PS 1810.7 mi · 568
Frequently asked questions
About PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOLHow many students attend PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL?
PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL enrolls approximately 374 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL serve?
PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL have?
PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.6:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL are roughly 3% White, 23% Hispanic, 66% Black, 6% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL in?
PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22.
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