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Enrollment
849
Elementary
DISTRICT 673 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20·NCES 360015103006
PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON
7002 4TH AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11209 · (718) 491-8440 · Kings County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL849 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% 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.
- A-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
10.9:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
701 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 | 60 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 123 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 135 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 124 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 52% smaller than its 8th grade class (124).
Student demographics
64%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
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +24.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 25 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 56.3% |
% 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
55.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON
PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON's state test result (55.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON this school | 849 | 82.6% | 55.1% |
| PS 108 PHILIP J ABINANTI BRONX | 664 | 85.1% | 74.0% |
| PS 70 LONG ISLAND CITY | 770 | 74.9% | 53.8% |
| PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE) BROOKLYN | 1,049 | 89.9% | 44.4% |
| PS 226 ALFRED DE B MASON BROOKLYN | 877 | 85.7% | 50.9% |
| PS 52 SHEEPSHEAD BAY BROOKLYN | 695 | 85.5% | 44.9% |
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/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #958 of 2,335 | #149 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #327 of 2,342 ▲ 721 | #54 of 290 ▲ 93 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,130 of 2,343 ▼ 138 | #191 of 290 ▼ 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 849 | #104 of 2,585 | #33 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #803 of 2,338 | #70 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #510 of 2,388 | #72 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.6% | #692 of 2,534 | #187 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.1% | #1,271 of 1,757 | #200 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
849
-119 (-12%) vs 2020
+150% since 2010-11, when it was 340
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 849 | 77.7 | 10.9:1 | 83% (701) |
| 2023-24 | 882 | 82.3 | 10.7:1 | 80% (709) |
| 2022-23 | 911 | 82.5 | 11.0:1 | 82% (744) |
| 2020-21 | 968 | 86 | 11.3:1 | 76% (738) |
| 2017-18 | 924 | 64 | 14.4:1 | 80% (740) |
| 2015-16 | 715 | 51 | 14.0:1 | 78% (560) |
| 2010-11 | 340 | 23 | 14.8:1 | 66% (225) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON.
About PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON
PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON is a large elementary school. Its address is in BROOKLYN, New York. The student body numbers 849 students, from kindergarten through 8. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 92% above that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 is the local district for PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON. It runs 48 schools with 44,136 students.
Enrollment at PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON is mixed, with White students the largest group at 45%. Other reported shares: 36% Hispanic and 16% Asian. By the diversity index, PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON comes in at 64%.
PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON counts 77.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 10.9 students for each one. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. About 83% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits.
allk12 grades PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON a B+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON is 10.5 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 55.1% actual, 44.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Kings County census figures show that median household income is about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON is among the 583 public schools in Kings County.
Nearest public school: HIGH SCHOOL OF TELECOMMUNICATION ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY, about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON saw enrollment fall 12% between 2020-21 and 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 #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
- HIGH SCHOOL OF TELECOMMUNICATION ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY0.2 mi · 1,222
- JOANNE SEMINARA SCHOOL OF LAW AND MEDICINE0.3 mi · 28
- PS 102 BAYVIEW (THE)0.3 mi · 1,075
- RALPH A FABRIZIO SCHOOL0.3 mi · 828
- SCHOOL OF MATH SCIENCE AND HEALTHY LIVING0.4 mi · 169
- PS 503 SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY (THE)0.6 mi · 550
Frequently asked questions
About PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTONHow many students attend PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON?
PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON enrolls approximately 849 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON serve?
PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON serves grades KG-08.
How many teachers does PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON have?
PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON employs 78 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON?
At PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON, the student body is approximately 45% White, 36% Hispanic, 2% Black, 16% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON in?
PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.