Ps 110 Monitor (the), Brooklyn NY

Original Research by School Decision on Ps 110 Monitor (the)

PS 110 The Monitor is a small elementary school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade with enrollment that is majority white, with a substantial Latino population and significant two-or-more-races enrollment. Just over a fifth of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school in a neighborhood of mixed economic circumstances.

The school's academic profile shows solid performance, particularly in the lower elementary grades. In third grade, proficiency in math is strong and reading is very strong. Fourth grade shows good results in both subjects, though math performance dips relative to third grade. By fifth grade, the picture becomes more mixed: English language arts reaches one of the school's highest levels of proficiency, but math performance declines further, and science proficiency, the only grade-level science data available, sits at roughly two-thirds of students meeting the standard. This grade-by-grade pattern—strong in the primary grades and tightening by upper elementary—suggests students may benefit from closer monitoring of their math progression and any gaps that widen as they move forward.

Within the county comparison set of Brooklyn's districts, PS 110 performs in the top quartile on an overall proficiency index. This positions the school above the median in its peer group, though some schools in the county perform notably higher. The school maintains consistent test participation across subjects and grades, suggesting stable assessment engagement.

The school is located on Monitor Street in Williamsburg, an intensely developed neighborhood that has been a center of Brooklyn's recent residential boom. The immediate area is highly walkable with dense street retail and restaurants, strong transit access via subway lines serving the neighborhood, and a growing population of young families. Housing in the zipcode is expensive, with values and rents well above both state and national benchmarks, and they have been climbing. This is a gentrified area where families with means have concentrated in recent years.

District 14, which serves Williamsburg and Greenpoint, has experienced steep enrollment declines over recent years, a shift that has prompted citywide acceleration of school mergers and consolidations across Brooklyn. The district itself is smaller than many New York City districts, and families considering the school should be aware of this enrollment context. A 2022 state law also requires gradual class-size reductions across the city through the late 2020s, a change that will reshape classroom conditions. Middle school admissions in the district now use lottery-based entry rather than selective screens, which simplifies the transition pathway but removes test-based placement.

The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet program, drawing families from its immediate Williamsburg community. For families in the neighborhood seeking an elementary option within walking distance, PS 110 offers solid academics and a peer group drawn from the intensely developed, expensive Brooklyn waterfront and urban core. A parent may want to look into the school's support structures for students whose math performance does not hold as they reach upper elementary, to understand how that pattern is addressed.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 389%

School 89% · District 67% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 477%

School 77% · District 63% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 567%

School 67% · District 61% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 386%

School 86% · District 62% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 480%

School 80% · District 63% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 592%

School 92% · District 72% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

Science

Grade 573%

School 73% · District 48% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 585%

School 85% · district not reported

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

This schoolNEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income77%Higher-income88%11 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income64%Higher-income86%21 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income79%Higher-income97%19 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income85%Higher-income90%6 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income62%Higher-income83%21 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income62%Higher-income69%8 pp gap