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Enrollment
293
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23·NCES 360012104886
PS/IS 323
210 CHESTER ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11212 · (718) 495-7781 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% 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.
- 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
10.8:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
285 students
DISTRICT 94% · 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 | 44 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
44%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
64.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +30.0pp since 2023
Math
61.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 30 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 61.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
45.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% 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/IS 323
PS/IS 323's state test result (45.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/IS 323 this school | 293 | 97.3% | 45.3% |
| PS 306 ETHAN ALLEN BROOKLYN | 259 | 98.1% | 52.2% |
| GOLDIE MAPLE ACADEMY ARVERNE | 309 | 94.2% | 25.4% |
| PS 161 CROWN (THE) BROOKLYN | 271 | 94.5% | 45.0% |
| RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 301 | 93.4% | 54.6% |
| PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER BROOKLYN | 280 | 90.7% | 54.2% |
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 323 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #1,374 of 2,335 | #195 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #1,034 of 2,342 ▲ 378 | #165 of 290 ▲ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #751 of 2,343 ▲ 790 | #135 of 290 ▲ 80 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #2,035 of 2,585 | #210 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #723 of 2,338 | #65 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.6% | #1,476 of 2,388 | #190 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.3% | #76 of 2,534 | #12 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -48.1% | #45 of 1,757 | #18 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
293
-211 (-42%) vs 2020
-46% since 2010-11, when it was 538
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 293 | 27.2 | 10.8:1 | 97% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 39.1 | 12.5:1 | 96% (466) |
| 2022-23 | 511 | 45.2 | 11.3:1 | 96% (493) |
| 2020-21 | 504 | 38 | 13.3:1 | 94% (473) |
| 2017-18 | 565 | 31 | 18.2:1 | 93% (528) |
| 2015-16 | 443 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 84% (373) |
| 2010-11 | 538 | 35 | 15.4:1 | 84% (452) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/IS 323.
About PS/IS 323
PS/IS 323 is a small elementary school in New York, with an address in BROOKLYN. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 293 students. The school is 34% below the average for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 oversees PS/IS 323 and 27 other schools, with 7,257 students in total.
Federal enrollment data show PS/IS 323 is 70% Black. The remaining shares are 27% Hispanic. Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 44, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 27.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, PS/IS 323 has a ratio of 10.8:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. Income data for the school show 97% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 79% average among public schools in Kings County.
On the allk12 Grade, PS/IS 323 lands at B-, ahead of 54% of New York public elementary schools.
PS/IS 323's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (45.3%) and its predicted rate (39.2%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
For Kings County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $80,263 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. The county has 583 public schools and about 291,697 students.
MOTT HALL BRIDGES ACADEMY, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, PS/IS 323 is 2nd among 8 schools close by.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
Federal counts for PS/IS 323: 504 students in 2020-21, 293 in 2024-25. A gap this wide can follow a change in the grades offered. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.3:1 to 10.8:1.
This page is set up for the PS/IS 323 community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
- MOTT HALL BRIDGES ACADEMY0.0 mi · 200
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VII HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 292
- TEACHERS PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 185
- SID MILLER ACADEMY0.1 mi · 595
- PS 327 DR ROSE B ENGLISH0.1 mi · 231
- GREGORY JOCKO JACKSON-SPORTS-ARTS0.2 mi · 203
Frequently asked questions
About PS/IS 323What is the total enrollment at PS/IS 323?
PS/IS 323 enrolls approximately 293 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS/IS 323 serve?
PS/IS 323 serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS/IS 323?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS/IS 323 is approximately 10.8:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS/IS 323?
At PS/IS 323, the student body is approximately 0% White, 27% Hispanic, 70% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS/IS 323 public or private?
PS/IS 323 is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.