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How has 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
525
Elementary
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010206477
30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)
28-37 29TH ST, ASTORIA, NY 11102 · (718) 726-0501 · Queens County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL525 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of New York public elementary schools
- A+Test 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
19.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
145 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 50 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 53 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 6% smaller than its 8th grade class (53).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
99.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
96.4%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 99 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 99.0% | 96.4% |
| 2023-24 | 98.0% | 98.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
98.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+33.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 98% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 33 points, placing it in New York's top 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 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)
30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)'s state test result (98.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) this school | 525 | 27.6% | 98.2% |
| TAG YOUNG SCHOLARS NEW YORK | 576 | 27.8% | 97.8% |
| SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL GREAT NECK | 519 | 21.2% | 78.4% |
| ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH THE ARTS (THE) FOREST HILLS | 573 | 23.7% | 91.4% |
| E M BAKER SCHOOL GREAT NECK | 651 | 19.8% | 83.3% |
| PASADENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 455 | 16.7% | 83.7% |
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 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 98.2% | #3 of 2,335 | #1 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 96.4% | #47 of 2,342 ▼ 21 | #6 of 219 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 99.0% | #5 of 2,343 ▼ 1 | #1 of 220 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 525 | #712 of 2,585 | #131 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #2,292 of 2,338 | #218 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.0% | #415 of 2,388 | #61 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.6% | #2,036 of 2,534 | #224 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.2% | #154 of 606 | #24 of 51 |
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
525
-9 (-2%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 18.4:1
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 | 525 | 26.8 | 19.6:1 | 28% (145) |
| 2023-24 | 513 | 26.7 | 19.2:1 | 28% (142) |
| 2022-23 | 485 | 27 | 18.0:1 | 26% (128) |
| 2020-21 | 534 | 29 | 18.4:1 | 26% (139) |
| 2017-18 | 444 | 24 | 18.5:1 | 27% (119) |
| 2015-16 | 238 | 12 | 19.8:1 | 26% (61) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE).
About 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)
Families in ASTORIA, New York, are served by 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE), a medium-sized elementary school. Enrollment is 525 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 8.
A total of 53 schools make up NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, with 35,337 students enrolled.
Asian students make up a majority at 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE), at 51%. The remaining shares are 24% White, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the Asian share of Queens County's population at about 26%. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 26.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 19.6:1. That is higher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 28%. That is 49 points below the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) ranks in the top 10% in New York. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 98.2%, against a prediction of 64.8%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Queens County show that the median household income is $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) is one of 392 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, PS 17 HENRY DAVID THOREAU, is less than a tenth of a mile from 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE). There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) is 1st on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 534 to 525. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 18.4:1 to 19.6:1.
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Queens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,323,052
Census ACS
Median income
$86,136
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
392
268,205 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Other schools in ASTORIA
- PS 122 MAMIE FAYElementary · 1,124 students
- OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 681 students
- PS 234Elementary · 465 students
- PS 84 STEINWAYElementary · 353 students
- URBAN DOVE TEAM CHARTER SCHOOL IIIHigh · 55 students
- ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANSMiddle · 50 students
Nearby schools
- PS 17 HENRY DAVID THOREAU0.0 mi · 610
- ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS0.1 mi · 50
- PS 2340.1 mi · 465
- YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP SCHOOL - ASTORIA0.2 mi · 579
- PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST0.4 mi · 410
- ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS0.4 mi · 382
Frequently asked questions
About 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)How many students attend 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)?
30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) enrolls approximately 525 students in grades KG-08.
Is 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)?
Approximately 19.6:1 students per teacher at 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE).
What is the student diversity at 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)?
Student demographics at 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) are roughly 24% White, 13% Hispanic, 3% Black, 51% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) in?
30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
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