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How has PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
465
Elementary
DISTRICT 233 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16·NCES 360009402178
PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER
265 RALPH AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11233 · (718) 574-2353 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL465 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.
- ABeats 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
12.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
416 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 | 82 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
50%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
81.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +27.0pp since 2023
Math
86.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 27 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 86.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in New York's top 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 40 GEORGE W CARVER
PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER's state test result (65.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER this school | 465 | 89.5% | 65.9% |
| HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 446 | 89.0% | 88.3% |
| BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 465 | 93.3% | 27.8% |
| DR DAVID AND RUTH ANDERSON ACADEMY- SCHOOL 16 ROCHESTER | 430 | 85.8% | 21.8% |
| PS 346 ABE STARK BROOKLYN | 385 | 88.8% | 46.9% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 BRONX | 513 | 85.8% | 85.5% |
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 40 GEORGE W CARVER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #530 of 2,335 | #86 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #210 of 2,342 ▲ 256 | #33 of 290 ▲ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #217 of 2,343 ▲ 476 | #37 of 290 ▲ 71 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 465 | #991 of 2,585 | #138 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #1,600 of 2,338 | #148 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.5% | #1,215 of 2,388 | #153 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.5% | #438 of 2,534 | #124 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +47.2% | #46 of 606 | #11 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
465
+22 (+5%) vs 2020
+21% since 2010-11, when it was 383
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 465 | 36 | 12.9:1 | 89% (416) |
| 2023-24 | 465 | 35 | 13.3:1 | 93% (434) |
| 2022-23 | 431 | 40.9 | 10.6:1 | 93% (401) |
| 2020-21 | 443 | 33 | 13.4:1 | 92% (408) |
| 2017-18 | 316 | 21 | 15.0:1 | 88% (277) |
| 2015-16 | 299 | 21 | 14.2:1 | 79% (235) |
| 2010-11 | 383 | 28 | 13.7:1 | 79% (302) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER.
About PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER
The public elementary school PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER is located in BROOKLYN, New York. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 465 students in pre-K through 5.
The 23 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 enroll 5,175 students altogether, PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER among them.
PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER is 67% Black by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 21% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% Pacific Islander, and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Kings County's population at about 28%. The school's diversity index is 50%, meaning two students picked at random have a 50% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER counts 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 12.9 students for each one. That is close to the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. About 89% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. It compares with 79% for public schools in Kings County.
PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER is graded A by allk12, scoring above 85% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER are 23.8 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 65.9%, compared with a predicted 42.1%, which ranks in the top 10% in New York.
Kings County census figures show that the median household income is $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Kings County is home to 583 public schools and about 291,697 public school students.
The nearest other public school, PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKS, is about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER is 3rd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment climbed 5% from its 2020-21 level of 443.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER covering things like sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 #16
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGYHigh · 469 students
- PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKSElementary · 430 students
- BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 353 students
- BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOLElementary · 352 students
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF GLOBAL FINANCE (THE)High · 222 students
- PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIRElementary · 218 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
- PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKS0.2 mi · 430
- UNCOMMON EXCELLENCE BOYS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.3 mi · 415
- PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL0.3 mi · 145
- UNCOMMON CROWN HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC0.3 mi · 513
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II0.3 mi · 662
- PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIR0.4 mi · 218
Frequently asked questions
About PS 40 GEORGE W CARVERWhat is the total enrollment at PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER?
PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER enrolls approximately 465 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER serve?
PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER.
How diverse is PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER?
PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER reports a student body of 5% White, 21% Hispanic, 67% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER?
PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.