ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL

ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in ELMHURST, New York, part of ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 460 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Operationally, ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL answers to ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 15% Asian, 8% White, 5% Black. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

The closest other public school is PS 7 LOUIS F SIMEONE, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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