ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the high-enrollment K-5 schools in CORONA, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, with 878 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 98% larger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 runs 57 schools in total, collectively educating 48,008 students. ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Other groups include 5% Asian, 4% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Queens County) reports that median household income runs about $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCI is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.7%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 193% since 2018, when it stood at 300 (now 878). Hispanic enrollment moved from 94% to 87% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.