Enrollment
158
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23·NCES 360012102182
PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE
411 THATFORD AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11212 · (718) 495-7732 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL158 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 59% of New York public elementary schools
- B-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
8.1:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
152 students
DISTRICT 94% · 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 | 1 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 28 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 16 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 22 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 31 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 3% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (25).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
67.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +30.0pp since 2023
Math
64.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 30 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 64.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 51.0% |
% 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
49.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 41 FRANCIS WHITE
PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE's state test result (49.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE this school | 158 | 96.2% | 49.2% |
| PS 399 STANLEY EUGENE CLARKE BROOKLYN | 157 | 100.0% | 23.5% |
| PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN NEW YORK | 182 | 96.2% | 37.2% |
| PS 256 BENJAMIN BANNEKER BROOKLYN | 178 | 94.9% | 25.2% |
| PS 243 WEEKSVILLE SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 199 | 94.5% | 23.3% |
| PS 191 PAUL ROBESON BROOKLYN | 163 | 92.0% | 35.3% |
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 41 FRANCIS WHITE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.2% | #1,193 of 2,335 | #178 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #920 of 2,342 ▲ 317 | #149 of 290 ▲ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #638 of 2,343 ▲ 776 | #114 of 290 ▲ 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 158 | #2,481 of 2,585 | #288 of 306 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.2% | #136 of 2,534 | #32 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -65.7% | #4 of 1,757 | #1 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
158
-133 (-46%) vs 2020
-76% since 2010-11, when it was 653
Student : Teacher
8.1:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 158 | 19.5 | 8.1:1 | 96% (152) |
| 2023-24 | 141 | 17.4 | 8.1:1 | 96% (136) |
| 2022-23 | 154 | 16.4 | 9.4:1 | 97% (149) |
| 2020-21 | 291 | 28 | 10.4:1 | 96% (280) |
| 2017-18 | 461 | 39 | 11.8:1 | 98% (453) |
| 2015-16 | 503 | 41 | 12.3:1 | 97% (490) |
| 2010-11 | 653 | 48 | 13.6:1 | 96% (625) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE.
About PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE
PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE is a very small elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, administered by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23. Federal data show 158 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 runs PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE along with 27 other schools, enrolling 7,257 students in total.
The largest group at PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE is Black students, at 65%. Other groups make up 29% Hispanic and 3% Asian. County-wide, 28% of Kings County residents are Black. The diversity index for PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE is 49%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 8.1:1. The school has 19.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is 4.7 students per teacher. In all, 96% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Kings County is 79%.
PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 59% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE scores 49.2% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 39.6%.
Looking at the 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 people live in poverty. Kings County has 583 public schools with about 291,697 students, including PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE.
MOTT HALL IV is less than a tenth of a mile from PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE ranks 4th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Federal records list enrollment at PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE as 291 in 2020-21 and 158 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 10.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 8.1:1.
The allk12 page for PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 #23
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN IIHigh · 662 students
- BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 512 students
- PS 156 WAVERLYElementary · 421 students
- PS 184 NEWPORTElementary · 395 students
- BROOKLYN LANDMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 378 students
- PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZElementary · 339 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
- MOTT HALL IV0.0 mi · 108
- PS 184 NEWPORT0.1 mi · 395
- PS 165 IDA POSNER0.3 mi · 213
- KAPPA V (KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREP ACADEMY)0.3 mi · 97
- BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY0.3 mi · 166
- METROPOLITAN DIPLOMA PLUS HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 153
Frequently asked questions
About PS 41 FRANCIS WHITEHow many students attend PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE?
PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE enrolls approximately 158 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE serve?
PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE have?
PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE?
At PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE, the student body is approximately 29% Hispanic, 65% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE?
PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.