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What's one thing PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
819
Elementary
DISTRICT 541 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15·NCES 360009202359
PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE)
5010 6TH AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11220 · (718) 435-6034 · Kings County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL819 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
10.2:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
804 students
DISTRICT 61% · 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 | 116 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 123 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 172 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 154 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 153 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (116) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (153).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
53.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 63.0% |
% 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
55.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE)
PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE)'s state test result (55.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) this school | 819 | 98.2% | 55.4% |
| PS 169 SUNSET PARK BROOKLYN | 755 | 96.4% | 52.5% |
| PS 120 FLUSHING | 748 | 90.1% | 53.2% |
| PS 179 KENSINGTON BROOKLYN | 660 | 93.9% | 43.1% |
| PS 214 MICHAEL FRIEDSAM BROOKLYN | 728 | 88.9% | 42.5% |
| PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON FLUSHING | 747 | 85.8% | 65.5% |
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 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #940 of 2,335 | #147 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #797 of 2,342 ▼ 9 | #133 of 290 ▼ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,207 of 2,343 ▼ 300 | #198 of 290 ▼ 64 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 819 | #130 of 2,585 | #38 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #495 of 2,338 | #53 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.5% | #1,306 of 2,388 | #167 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.2% | #40 of 2,534 | #8 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -40.7% | #111 of 1,757 | #33 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
819
-310 (-27%) vs 2020
-35% since 2010-11, when it was 1,268
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 819 | 80.4 | 10.2:1 | 98% (804) |
| 2023-24 | 866 | 89.3 | 9.7:1 | 97% (843) |
| 2022-23 | 970 | 85.1 | 11.4:1 | 98% (951) |
| 2020-21 | 1,129 | 96 | 11.8:1 | 98% (1,108) |
| 2017-18 | 1,382 | 94 | 14.7:1 | 98% (1,359) |
| 2015-16 | 1,532 | 92 | 16.6:1 | 98% (1,496) |
| 2010-11 | 1,268 | 78 | 16.3:1 | 93% (1,184) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE).
About PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE)
This page covers PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE), a large elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. It enrolls 819 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5. It has 85% more students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) is one of 51 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15, which enrolls 25,925 students in total.
More than half of enrollment at PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) is Asian: 62%. Other groups include 36% Hispanic. The county population is about 12% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) scores 48%.
PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) has a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1, with 80.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 98% at PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE). Across public schools in Kings County, the average is 79%.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) lands at B+, ahead of 72% of New York public elementary schools.
In New York, PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 55.4% actual against a predicted 38.9%.
In the wider Kings County area, median household income comes to about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Kings County's 583 public schools enroll about 291,697 students and include PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE).
Of the public schools around it, PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) is closest to LEEP DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 55.4% against a local average of 51.1%.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
In 2020-21, PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) enrolled 1,129 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 819. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.2:1) than in 2020-21 (11.8:1).
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15
- SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,348 students
- PS 321 WILLIAM PENNElementary · 1,305 students
- MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDERMiddle · 1,038 students
- PS 230 DORIS L COHENElementary · 925 students
- PS 130 PARKSIDE (THE)Elementary · 891 students
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 890 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
- LEEP DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 435
- PS 1 BERGEN (THE)0.4 mi · 660
- PS 169 SUNSET PARK0.4 mi · 755
- SCHOOL OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION (THE)0.4 mi · 315
- JHS 220 JOHN J PERSHING0.4 mi · 1,257
- SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 337
Frequently asked questions
About PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE)How large is PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE)?
PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) enrolls approximately 819 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) serve?
PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) have?
PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) employs 80 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE)?
At PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE), the student body is approximately 2% White, 36% Hispanic, 0% Black, 62% Asian.
What district is PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) in?
PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15.
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