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Enrollment
546
Elementary
DISTRICT 541 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15·NCES 360009202173
PS 38 PACIFIC (THE)
450 PACIFIC ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11217 · (718) 330-9305 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL546 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.
- 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
16.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
241 students
DISTRICT 61% · 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 | 103 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
78.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 70.0% | 73.0% |
% 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
71.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 38 PACIFIC (THE)
PS 38 PACIFIC (THE)'s state test result (71.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) this school | 546 | 44.1% | 71.4% |
| NEW SCOTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 451 | 46.1% | 51.1% |
| BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL - CSD 13.2 BROOKLYN | 580 | 48.8% | 74.9% |
| KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL YONKERS | 539 | 49.2% | 60.0% |
| PS 133 WILLIAM A BUTLER BROOKLYN | 611 | 46.2% | 63.7% |
| PS 889 BROOKLYN | 423 | 49.2% | 55.8% |
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 38 PACIFIC (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #351 of 2,335 | #49 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #522 of 2,342 ▼ 54 | #93 of 290 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #288 of 2,343 ▼ 31 | #52 of 290 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #645 of 2,585 | #107 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #2,175 of 2,338 | #221 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.2% | #14 of 2,388 | #2 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.1% | #1,574 of 2,534 | #271 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.2% | #1,520 of 1,757 | #215 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
546
+9 (+2%) vs 2020
+16% since 2010-11, when it was 471
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 546 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 44% (241) |
| 2023-24 | 548 | 35 | 15.7:1 | 43% (237) |
| 2022-23 | 537 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 46% (246) |
| 2020-21 | 537 | 34 | 15.8:1 | 43% (233) |
| 2017-18 | 570 | 37 | 15.4:1 | 50% (287) |
| 2015-16 | 556 | 42 | 13.2:1 | 58% (325) |
| 2010-11 | 471 | 35 | 13.5:1 | 68% (321) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 38 PACIFIC (THE).
About PS 38 PACIFIC (THE)
This page covers PS 38 PACIFIC (THE), a mid-sized elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. It reports enrollment of 546 students in pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 23% bigger than that mark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 enrolls 25,925 students in 51 schools, including PS 38 PACIFIC (THE).
The biggest share of students at PS 38 PACIFIC (THE), 29%, is White. The next largest groups are 26% Hispanic, 24% Black, 11% Asian, and 10% multiracial. In Kings County overall, about 38% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) scores 77%.
PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) reported 34 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 16.1:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 3.2 fewer students per teacher than here. There are 241 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 44% of enrollment. On average, public schools in Kings County report 79%.
PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 85% of New York public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) is +12.6 points: 71.4% actual, 58.8% predicted.
In Kings County, median household income comes to about $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Kings County counts 583 public schools with about 291,697 students.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, EXPLORATORY SCHOOL (THE), is the closest to PS 38 PACIFIC (THE). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) comes in 2nd of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 546, starting from 537.
PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. 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 #15
- SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,348 students
- PS 321 WILLIAM PENNElementary · 1,305 students
- MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDERMiddle · 1,038 students
- PS 230 DORIS L COHENElementary · 925 students
- PS 130 PARKSIDE (THE)Elementary · 891 students
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 890 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
- EXPLORATORY SCHOOL (THE)0.2 mi · 518
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS0.2 mi · 890
- ELIZABETH JENNINGS SCHOOL FOR BOLD EXPLORERS0.2 mi · 110
- KHALIL GIBRAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY0.2 mi · 106
- BROOKLYN RISE CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 336
- PS 369 COY L COX SCHOOL0.3 mi · 483
Frequently asked questions
About PS 38 PACIFIC (THE)What is the total enrollment at PS 38 PACIFIC (THE)?
PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) enrolls approximately 546 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) serve?
PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 38 PACIFIC (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) is approximately 16.1:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PS 38 PACIFIC (THE)?
PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) reports a student body of 29% White, 26% Hispanic, 24% Black, 11% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) in?
PS 38 PACIFIC (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.