Enrollment
298
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23·NCES 360012102559
PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER
1355 HERKIMER ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11233 · (718) 240-4340 · Kings County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL298 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest 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
12.4:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
271 students
DISTRICT 94% · 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 | 45 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 27 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 22 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 25 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 31 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 33 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (27) is 18% smaller than its 8th grade class (33).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
40.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 40.3% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 39.3% |
% 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
40.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% 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/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER
PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER's state test result (40.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER this school | 298 | 90.9% | 40.2% |
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 5 BRONX | 329 | 92.7% | 81.9% |
| CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 286 | 88.8% | 43.5% |
| FAIRMONT NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL BRONX | 266 | 93.6% | 29.5% |
| PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS BRONX | 302 | 95.4% | 40.0% |
| STOREFRONT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 260 | 93.5% | 60.5% |
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/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #1,605 of 2,335 | #222 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #1,839 of 2,342 ▼ 137 | #237 of 290 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,946 of 2,343 ▼ 712 | #264 of 290 ▼ 85 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 298 | #2,001 of 2,585 | #203 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #1,421 of 2,338 | #123 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.6% | #1,211 of 2,388 | #152 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.9% | #371 of 2,534 | #96 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.9% | #313 of 1,757 | #76 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
298
-37 (-11%) vs 2020
-48% since 2010-11, when it was 578
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 298 | 24 | 12.4:1 | 91% (271) |
| 2023-24 | 369 | 23.8 | 15.5:1 | 96% (356) |
| 2022-23 | 296 | 26 | 11.4:1 | 96% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 335 | 27 | 12.4:1 | 95% (317) |
| 2017-18 | 419 | 32.4 | 12.9:1 | 97% (407) |
| 2015-16 | 496 | 35 | 14.2:1 | 98% (484) |
| 2010-11 | 578 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 95% (551) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER.
About PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER
PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER is an elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, and it is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23. It offers pre-K through 8 and has 298 students enrolled. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23, where 28 schools serve 7,257 students.
Of every 100 students at PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER, about 62 are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 32% Black and 3% Native American. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 19%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER scores 51%.
There are 24 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 12.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is similar, at 12.8:1. On the income side, 91% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 79% average for public schools in Kings County, the school's rate is higher.
On the allk12 Grade, PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER lands at C+, ahead of 42% of New York public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 40.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 41.5%.
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.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, IMAGINE ME LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER places 7th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
The school's enrollment fell 11% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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 #23
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN IIHigh · 662 students
- BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 512 students
- PS 156 WAVERLYElementary · 421 students
- PS 184 NEWPORTElementary · 395 students
- BROOKLYN LANDMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 378 students
- PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZElementary · 339 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
- IMAGINE ME LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 280
- BROOKLYN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLORATION SCHOOL (BEES)0.2 mi · 147
- BROOKLYN LANDMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 378
- BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL0.3 mi · 512
- ACHIEVEMENT FIRST BROWNSVILLE CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 651
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II0.4 mi · 662
Frequently asked questions
About PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMERHow large is PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER?
PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER enrolls approximately 298 students in grades PK-08.
Is PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER is approximately 12.4:1 (24 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER?
At PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER, the student body is approximately 1% White, 62% Hispanic, 32% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER?
PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 in Kings County.
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