Enrollment
339
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32·NCES 360009702830
PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER
242 COOPER ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11207 · (718) 642-4890 · Kings County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL339 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
8.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
317 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 | 36 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 31 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 38 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 31 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (31).
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
31.6%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.2pp 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 32 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 31.6% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 22.3% |
% 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
28.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 384 FRANCES E CARTER
PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER's state test result (28.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER this school | 339 | 93.5% | 28.3% |
| PS 140 NATHAN STRAUS NEW YORK | 334 | 95.8% | 27.5% |
| PS 28 WRIGHT BROTHERS NEW YORK | 378 | 91.8% | 38.0% |
| PS 290 JUAN MOREL CAMPOS BROOKLYN | 374 | 96.8% | 30.4% |
| PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE BROOKLYN | 327 | 90.5% | 23.6% |
| PS 226 BRONX | 310 | 96.5% | 48.5% |
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 384 FRANCES E CARTER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #2,071 of 2,335 | #262 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #2,064 of 2,342 ▲ 107 | #263 of 290 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,944 of 2,343 ▲ 6 | #262 of 290 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 339 | #1,737 of 2,585 | #184 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #111 of 2,338 | #17 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.8% | #1,985 of 2,388 | #244 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.5% | #272 of 2,534 | #63 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.5% | #217 of 1,757 | #56 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
339
-62 (-15%) vs 2020
-53% since 2010-11, when it was 723
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 339 | 40 | 8.5:1 | 94% (317) |
| 2023-24 | 349 | 37.8 | 9.2:1 | 89% (312) |
| 2022-23 | 346 | 37.7 | 9.2:1 | 86% (299) |
| 2020-21 | 401 | 41 | 9.8:1 | 88% (352) |
| 2017-18 | 510 | 36 | 14.2:1 | 88% (447) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 40 | 16.0:1 | 77% (492) |
| 2010-11 | 723 | 51 | 14.2:1 | 68% (495) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER.
About PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER
Among the schools in BROOKLYN, New York, is PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER, a low-enrollment elementary school. The school serves 339 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 23% smaller than that.
The NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32 system has 27 schools and 8,794 students.
The large majority of students at PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER, 85%, are Hispanic. The next largest groups are 12% Black. The school's Hispanic share is 66 points above the 19% share among Kings County residents. PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER has a diversity index of 26%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teacher staffing is 40 full-time equivalents, or about 8.5 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. About 94% of students, or 317, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Kings County, the average eligibility rate is 79%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER would be expected to post about 40.6%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 28.3%.
Census Bureau estimates for Kings County show that median household income is about $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER is one of 583 public schools in Kings County, which together enroll about 291,697 students.
The shortest distance from PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to EVERGREEN MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR URBAN EXPLORATION. The five-mile area around PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER ranks 7th on proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
Federal counts put enrollment at 401 in 2020-21 and 339 in 2024-25, a 15% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.8:1 in 2020-21 to 8.5:1 in 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
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- JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLERMiddle · 651 students
- PS 376Elementary · 466 students
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- 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
- EVERGREEN MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR URBAN EXPLORATION0.3 mi · 354
- PS 151 LYNDON B JOHNSON0.3 mi · 268
- PS/IS 45 HORACE E GREENE0.3 mi · 440
- BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 738
- PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE0.5 mi · 327
- PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER0.6 mi · 209
Frequently asked questions
About PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTERHow many students attend PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER?
PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER enrolls approximately 339 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER serve?
PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER?
Approximately 8.5:1 students per teacher at PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER.
What is the student diversity at PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER?
Student demographics at PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER are roughly 1% White, 85% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER in?
PS/IS 384 FRANCES E CARTER is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32.
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