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Enrollment
695
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22·NCES 360015302230
PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY
2675 E 29TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11235 · (718) 648-0882 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL695 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test 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
13.9:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
594 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 61 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 123 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (123).
Student demographics
65%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 | 49.0% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 49.0% |
% 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
44.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY
PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY's state test result (44.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY this school | 695 | 85.5% | 44.9% |
| PS 199 FREDERICK WACHTEL BROOKLYN | 508 | 88.2% | 41.5% |
| PS 216 ARTURO TOSCANINI BROOKLYN | 715 | 82.2% | 59.8% |
| PS 209 MARGARET MEAD BROOKLYN | 702 | 78.6% | 57.5% |
| PS 108 PHILIP J ABINANTI BRONX | 664 | 85.1% | 74.0% |
| PS 255 BARBARA REING SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 800 | 81.5% | 60.4% |
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 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #1,394 of 2,335 | #201 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,400 of 2,342 ▼ 68 | #203 of 290 ▼ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,367 of 2,343 ▼ 138 | #216 of 290 ▼ 37 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 695 | #275 of 2,585 | #62 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,843 of 2,338 | #178 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #478 of 2,388 | #68 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.5% | #595 of 2,534 | #172 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.9% | #859 of 1,757 | #159 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
695
-59 (-8%) vs 2020
-8% since 2010-11, when it was 752
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 695 | 50.1 | 13.9:1 | 85% (594) |
| 2023-24 | 686 | 53.5 | 12.8:1 | 84% (579) |
| 2022-23 | 741 | 48.9 | 15.2:1 | 83% (618) |
| 2020-21 | 754 | 53 | 14.2:1 | 82% (617) |
| 2017-18 | 817 | 59 | 13.8:1 | 76% (623) |
| 2015-16 | 864 | 55 | 15.7:1 | 78% (678) |
| 2010-11 | 752 | 57 | 13.2:1 | 71% (535) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY.
About PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY
PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY is a large elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. It educates 695 students in pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students.
Enrollment across the 40 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 totals 30,207 students.
By race and ethnicity, PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY is 53% White. It is also 18% Asian, 17% Hispanic, and 9% Black. For comparison, the population of Kings County is roughly 38% White. PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY has a diversity index of 65%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 50.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY in 2024-25, for a ratio of 13.9:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, lower than at this school. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 85%.
allk12 grades PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY a B-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 43.6% at PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 44.9%.
Within Kings County, median household income is about $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Kings County number 583 and enroll about 291,697.
Of nearby public schools, PS 811 CONNIE LEKAS SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY is behind the 56.0% nearby average, ranking 5th of 7.
PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 754 to 695.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 #22
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMBElementary · 1,508 students
- JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAMMiddle · 1,447 students
- PS 197 KINGS HIGHWAY ACADEMY (THE)Elementary · 1,074 students
- LEON M GOLDSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCESHigh · 952 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 811 CONNIE LEKAS SCHOOL0.2 mi · 278
- JHS 14 SHELL BANK0.4 mi · 469
- ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 479
- UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED MATH AND SCIENCE III0.4 mi · 283
- PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 180
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SHEEPSHEAD BAY0.4 mi · 219
Frequently asked questions
About PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAYHow many students attend PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY?
PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY enrolls approximately 695 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY serve?
PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY have?
PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY?
Student demographics at PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY are roughly 53% White, 17% Hispanic, 9% Black, 18% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY in?
PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.