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Enrollment
636
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14·NCES 360011902326
PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO
250 BERRY ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11211 · (718) 384-8063 · Kings County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL636 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% 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.
- B-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
9.3:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
373 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 77 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 49 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 64 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 14% larger than its 8th grade class (64).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
60.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
43.6%
NY avg 57.4% . -6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 43.6% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 50.3% |
% 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
50.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 84 JOSE DE DIEGO
PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO's state test result (50.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO this school | 636 | 58.6% | 50.4% |
| NORTH MAIN STREET SCHOOL MONROE | 559 | 58.3% | 42.2% |
| BIRCHWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL MELVILLE | 659 | 53.1% | 37.3% |
| WASHINGTON IRVING INTERM SCHOOL TARRYTOWN | 605 | 51.1% | 47.5% |
| LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBERTY | 664 | 66.9% | 28.4% |
| ROSEMARIE ANN SIRAGUSA SCHOOL YONKERS | 500 | 58.6% | 45.9% |
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 84 JOSE DE DIEGO ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.4% | #1,152 of 2,335 | #173 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.6% | #1,710 of 2,342 ▼ 431 | #227 of 290 ▼ 50 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #931 of 2,343 ▼ 260 | #166 of 290 ▼ 61 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 636 | #381 of 2,585 | #75 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #249 of 2,338 | #35 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.7% | #896 of 2,388 | #117 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.6% | #1,190 of 2,534 | #259 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.0% | #618 of 1,757 | #134 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
636
-70 (-10%) vs 2020
+37% since 2010-11, when it was 465
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 9.7:1
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 | 636 | 68.2 | 9.3:1 | 59% (373) |
| 2023-24 | 629 | 65.9 | 9.6:1 | 59% (370) |
| 2022-23 | 608 | 69.8 | 8.7:1 | 57% (348) |
| 2020-21 | 706 | 73 | 9.7:1 | 56% (394) |
| 2017-18 | 795 | 80 | 9.9:1 | 47% (376) |
| 2015-16 | 755 | 66 | 11.4:1 | 39% (295) |
| 2010-11 | 465 | 39 | 11.9:1 | 79% (366) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO.
About PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO
PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO is one of the public schools in BROOKLYN, New York. It is a mid-sized elementary school. The school offers pre-K through 8 and enrolls 636 students. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14, PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO is one of 38 schools. The district enrolls 15,288 students.
At PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO, 60% of students are Hispanic. The remaining students are 26% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, and 3% Asian. Census figures show Kings County is about 19% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO scores 57%.
Teacher count: 68.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 9.3:1. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 59%. Among public schools in Kings County, the average eligibility rate is 79%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO outscored 51%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO scores 50.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 53.4%.
In Kings County, home to about 2,631,580 people, median household income comes to about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO, Kings County has 583 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO is closest to SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-WILLIAMSBURG, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO at 6th of 8.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased by 10% across 4 years, from 706 in 2020-21 to 636 in 2024-25.
The PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 #14
- IS 318 EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOSMiddle · 1,028 students
- BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL (THE)High · 772 students
- WILLIAMSBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOLHigh · 667 students
- PS 31 SAMUEL F DUPONTElementary · 644 students
- WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNHigh · 622 students
- BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 591 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
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-WILLIAMSBURG0.3 mi · 247
- JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS0.3 mi · 388
- PS 17 HENRY D WOODWORTH0.3 mi · 197
- BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 591
- WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN0.4 mi · 622
- WILLIAMSBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 667
Frequently asked questions
About PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGOWhat is the total enrollment at PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO?
PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO enrolls approximately 636 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO serve?
PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO have?
PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO employs 68 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO?
At PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO, the student body is approximately 26% White, 60% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO in?
PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.