Enrollment
337
Elementary
DISTRICT 541 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15·NCES 360009206407
SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4308 4TH AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11232 · (718) 369-8330 · Kings County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL337 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% 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.
- C+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
11.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
270 students
DISTRICT 61% · 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 | 27 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
46.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
48.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +17.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 17 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 31.0% |
% 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
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (38.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 337 | 80.1% | 38.3% |
| MILTON FEIN SCHOOL BRONX | 363 | 80.7% | 64.5% |
| LEARNERS AND LEADERS GLENDALE | 421 | 84.6% | 42.9% |
| PS 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK NEW YORK | 368 | 85.6% | 28.7% |
| LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL INWOOD | 419 | 81.1% | 38.3% |
| PROFESSOR JUAN BOSCH PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW YORK | 254 | 81.1% | 58.6% |
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 SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #1,698 of 2,335 | #232 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,513 of 2,342 ▲ 444 | #215 of 290 ▲ 35 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,492 of 2,343 ▼ 20 | #225 of 290 ▼ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 337 | #1,750 of 2,585 | #186 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #945 of 2,338 | #84 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.6% | #1,795 of 2,388 | #220 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.1% | #767 of 2,534 | #204 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.4% | #565 of 1,757 | #124 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
337
-109 (-24%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 337 | 30 | 11.2:1 | 80% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 340 | 29 | 11.7:1 | 76% (260) |
| 2022-23 | 349 | 28.6 | 12.2:1 | 74% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 40 | 11.2:1 | 83% (370) |
| 2017-18 | 429 | 33.5 | 12.8:1 | 88% (376) |
| 2015-16 | 278 | 22 | 12.6:1 | 91% (254) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school with its address in BROOKLYN, New York. The latest federal count shows 337 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 24% smaller than average.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 runs SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL along with 50 other schools, enrolling 25,925 students in total.
Hispanic students are the large majority at SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 80% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 12% White, 4% Asian, and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Kings County's population at about 19%. SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 34%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
At SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 30 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 11.2:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Roughly 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. That is close to the 79% average for public schools in Kings County.
allk12 grades SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a C. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 7.2 points below its prediction. Actual: 38.3%. Predicted: 45.5%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Kings County, median household income is about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County, which together enroll about 291,697 students.
The shortest distance from SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to GLOBAL INNOVATORS ACADEMY. The five-mile area around SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 43.7%, higher than SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 38.3%.
Federal data place SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL went from 446 students to 337.
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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 #15
- SUNSET PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,348 students
- PS 321 WILLIAM PENNElementary · 1,305 students
- MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDERMiddle · 1,038 students
- PS 230 DORIS L COHENElementary · 925 students
- PS 130 PARKSIDE (THE)Elementary · 891 students
- BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 890 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
- GLOBAL INNOVATORS ACADEMY0.0 mi · 49
- IS 136 CHARLES O DEWEY0.1 mi · 474
- SUNSET PARK PREP0.1 mi · 390
- PS 1 BERGEN (THE)0.2 mi · 660
- BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 150.2 mi · 20
- PS 240.3 mi · 544
Frequently asked questions
About SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 337 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the student diversity at SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 12% White, 80% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15.
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