Enrollment
148
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17·NCES 360009502348
PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)
532 ALBANY AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11203 · (718) 756-0243 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL148 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 50% 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
8.6:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
134 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 26 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 19 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 23 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 17 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 19 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 21 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (21).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +29.0pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 29 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
44.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)
PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (44.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) this school | 148 | 90.5% | 44.5% |
| PS 191 PAUL ROBESON BROOKLYN | 163 | 92.0% | 35.3% |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 134 | 93.3% | 38.7% |
| SISULU-WALKER CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM NEW YORK | 152 | 84.9% | 60.8% |
| PS 262 EL HAJJ MALIK EL SHABAZZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 155 | 85.8% | 59.0% |
| PS 335 GRANVILLE T WOODS BROOKLYN | 170 | 97.1% | 55.4% |
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 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #1,407 of 2,335 | #202 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,171 of 2,342 ▲ 413 | #178 of 290 ▲ 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #835 of 2,343 ▲ 757 | #149 of 290 ▲ 68 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 148 | #2,498 of 2,585 | #293 of 306 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.5% | #386 of 2,534 | #100 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -43.5% | #80 of 1,757 | #27 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
148
-40 (-21%) vs 2020
-80% since 2010-11, when it was 737
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 148 | 17.3 | 8.6:1 | 91% (134) |
| 2023-24 | 151 | 13.3 | 11.3:1 | 93% (140) |
| 2022-23 | 161 | 13.8 | 11.6:1 | 92% (148) |
| 2020-21 | 188 | 17 | 11.1:1 | 92% (173) |
| 2017-18 | 262 | 22 | 11.9:1 | 95% (249) |
| 2015-16 | 373 | 25 | 14.9:1 | 90% (336) |
| 2010-11 | 737 | 59 | 12.5:1 | 98% (725) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE).
About PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)
PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) is a public elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. It enrolls 148 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 67% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 has 49 schools and 16,990 students, and PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) is one of those schools.
About 74% of the student body at PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) is Black. The remaining students are 22% Hispanic. Among people living in Kings County, the Black share is about 28%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 40, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 17.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.6:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. A total of 134 students, or 91%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Kings County is 79%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) outscored 50%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 41.7% for PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE). The school posts 44.5%, 2.8 points above the prediction.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Kings County show that the median household earns about $80,263 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Across Kings County, 583 public schools serve about 291,697 students.
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST CROWN HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 45.7%; PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)'s is 44.5%, ranking 5th of 9.
Locale data from NCES put PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 21%, from 188 to 148. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 11.1:1 to 8.6:1.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)How many students attend PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)?
PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 148 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) have?
PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.6:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)?
Student demographics at PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) are roughly 1% White, 22% Hispanic, 74% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)?
PS 91 ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.