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What's the one class at PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS every student should take?
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Enrollment
433
Elementary
DISTRICT 673 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20·NCES 360015106197
PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS
1664 BENSON AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11214 · (718) 382-3130 · Kings County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% 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
13.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
357 students
DISTRICT 82% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 27% larger than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
68.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
73.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 69.0% |
% 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
65.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% 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 20 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 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS
PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS's state test result (65.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS this school | 433 | 82.4% | 65.0% |
| PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY BROOKLYN | 491 | 89.8% | 71.1% |
| PS 48 MAPLETON BROOKLYN | 487 | 87.5% | 51.7% |
| PS 38 GEORGE CROMWELL STATEN ISLAND | 354 | 78.8% | 46.1% |
| PS 154 FLUSHING | 542 | 77.1% | 60.3% |
| PS 134 BROOKLYN | 500 | 88.2% | 76.5% |
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 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #560 of 2,335 | #88 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #585 of 2,342 ▲ 7 | #105 of 290 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #600 of 2,343 ▼ 117 | #110 of 290 ▼ 37 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 433 | #1,174 of 2,585 | #146 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #1,689 of 2,338 | #158 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.4% | #345 of 2,388 | #46 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.4% | #695 of 2,534 | #188 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.7% | #587 of 1,757 | #129 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
433
-62 (-13%) vs 2020
+231% since 2010-11, when it was 131
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 433 | 32.7 | 13.2:1 | 82% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 421 | 36.3 | 11.6:1 | 84% (354) |
| 2022-23 | 434 | 29.8 | 14.6:1 | 82% (355) |
| 2020-21 | 495 | 36 | 13.8:1 | 80% (395) |
| 2017-18 | 546 | 36 | 15.2:1 | 73% (400) |
| 2015-16 | 617 | 40 | 15.4:1 | 66% (408) |
| 2010-11 | 131 | 10 | 13.1:1 | 65% (85) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS.
About PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS
PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of BROOKLYN, New York. It had 433 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5.
The NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 system has 48 schools and 44,136 students.
The largest group at PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS is Asian students, at 42%. The school is also 28% White and 27% Hispanic. That is higher than the 12% Asian share among all Kings County residents. The diversity index for PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS is 67%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS comes to 32.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.2:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is close to this figure. PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS counts 82% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Kings County is similar, at 79%.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS lands at A-, ahead of 83% of New York public elementary schools.
A school in New York with PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 44.7%. PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS scores 65.0%.
For Kings County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. The county has 583 public schools and about 291,697 students.
PS 163 BATH BEACH, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS places 3rd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 495 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 433 by 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 #20
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
- NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,236 students
- JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEYMiddle · 1,780 students
- MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,518 students
- JHS 227 EDWARD B SHALLOWMiddle · 1,327 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 163 BATH BEACH0.0 mi · 621
- PS 229 DYKER0.4 mi · 1,115
- PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,209
- PS 204 VINCE LOMBARDI0.5 mi · 994
- NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 3,236
- PS 128 BENSONHURST0.6 mi · 435
Frequently asked questions
About PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARSHow large is PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS?
PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS enrolls approximately 433 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS serve?
PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS.
What is the student diversity at PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS?
Student demographics at PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS are roughly 28% White, 27% Hispanic, 42% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS?
PS 748 BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL SCHOLARS is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.