PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY
PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14. Current enrollment sits at 390 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY is one of 38 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14, a district that hosts 15,288 students overall.
On the student-mix side, PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder is composed of 19% Black, 7% White, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the resource side, PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.9%; this one delivers 47.1%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.
BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN CHARTER SCHOOL II is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 68.0%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Trend over the last 7 years. PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 33% since 2018, when it stood at 582 (now 390). Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.
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