Enrollment
301
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23·NCES 360012106313
RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
76 RIVERDALE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11212 · (718) 485-1679 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL301 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 69% 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
12.8:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
281 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 | 55 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
49%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
66.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +19.0pp since 2023
Math
63.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 67.0% |
% 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
54.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% 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 RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL's state test result (54.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL this school | 301 | 93.4% | 54.6% |
| GOLDIE MAPLE ACADEMY ARVERNE | 309 | 94.2% | 25.4% |
| PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER BROOKLYN | 280 | 90.7% | 54.2% |
| PS/IS 323 BROOKLYN | 293 | 97.3% | 45.3% |
| PS 161 CROWN (THE) BROOKLYN | 271 | 94.5% | 45.0% |
| PS 273 WORTMAN BROOKLYN | 299 | 89.6% | 27.9% |
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 RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #978 of 2,335 | #151 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #963 of 2,342 ▼ 308 | #156 of 290 ▼ 64 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #676 of 2,343 ▲ 304 | #121 of 290 ▲ 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 301 | #1,986 of 2,585 | #201 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,568 of 2,338 | #143 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.9% | #1,286 of 2,388 | #164 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.4% | #279 of 2,534 | #66 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #918 of 1,757 | #166 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
301
+2 (+1%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 301 | 23.4 | 12.8:1 | 93% (281) |
| 2023-24 | 314 | 25 | 12.6:1 | 96% (300) |
| 2022-23 | 300 | 24 | 12.5:1 | 93% (280) |
| 2020-21 | 299 | 29 | 10.3:1 | 96% (286) |
| 2017-18 | 349 | 31 | 11.3:1 | 95% (331) |
| 2015-16 | 358 | 25 | 14.3:1 | 95% (340) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
About RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
At 76 RIVERDALE AVE in BROOKLYN, New York, RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL operates as a low-enrollment elementary school. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 301 students. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL reports to NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23, which has 28 schools and 7,257 students.
The student body at RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is 67% Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 24% Hispanic and 5% Asian. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 28%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.
The school has 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.8 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school reported 93% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Across public schools in Kings County, the average is 79%.
RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 69% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 40.7% for RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL. The school posts 54.6%, 13.9 points above the prediction.
The school is in Kings County, where the median household earns about $80,263 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL shares Kings County with 582 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is closest to RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 39.6%; RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL's is 54.6%, ranking 2nd of 9.
In the federal locale system, RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 299 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 301. Students per teacher increased from 10.3 in 2020-21 to 12.8 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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- 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
- RIVERDALE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 98
- PS 165 IDA POSNER0.2 mi · 213
- MOTT HALL IV0.3 mi · 108
- PS 41 FRANCIS WHITE0.3 mi · 158
- EAST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 164
- MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR ART AND PHILOSPHY0.4 mi · 156
Frequently asked questions
About RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOLHow many students attend RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 301 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL serve?
RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
How diverse is RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 24% Hispanic, 67% Black, 5% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL in?
RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.