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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) administration to hear?
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Enrollment
561
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29·NCES 360010105546
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)
233-15 MERRICK BLVD, ROSEDALE, NY 11422 · (718) 341-8280 · Queens County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL561 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 56% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
443 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 16 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 5% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 101 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is 74% smaller than its 8th grade class (101).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 65.0% |
% 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
48.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% 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 GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (48.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) this school | 561 | 79.0% | 48.9% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLATBUSH BROOKLYN | 598 | 81.9% | 84.6% |
| PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS CAMBRIA HEIGHTS | 561 | 76.3% | 71.3% |
| PS 66 BROOKLYN | 527 | 80.5% | 51.5% |
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING BRONX | 532 | 76.9% | 59.0% |
| EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 624 | 79.0% | 55.8% |
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 GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.9% | #1,203 of 2,335 | #150 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,346 of 2,342 ▼ 614 | #166 of 219 ▼ 69 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,128 of 2,343 ▼ 218 | #147 of 220 ▼ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 561 | #595 of 2,585 | #112 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #947 of 2,338 | #44 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.2% | #1,777 of 2,388 | #195 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.0% | #802 of 2,534 | #120 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.8% | #408 of 1,757 | #58 of 167 |
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
561
-135 (-19%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 660
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 561 | 50 | 11.2:1 | 79% (443) |
| 2023-24 | 621 | 48.3 | 12.9:1 | 79% (491) |
| 2022-23 | 653 | 43 | 15.2:1 | 85% (558) |
| 2020-21 | 696 | 54 | 12.9:1 | 71% (496) |
| 2017-18 | 756 | 43 | 17.6:1 | 68% (511) |
| 2015-16 | 679 | 44 | 15.4:1 | 59% (401) |
| 2010-11 | 660 | 42 | 15.7:1 | 56% (372) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE).
About GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) is a mid-sized elementary school in ROSEDALE, New York. Enrollment totals 561 students across pre-K through 8. The school is 27% bigger than the average for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 oversees GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) and 45 other schools, with 21,817 students in total.
Black students are 80% of those enrolled at GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE). Beyond that, enrollment is 10% Hispanic, 3% Pacific Islander, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. In Queens County overall, about 17% of residents are Black. The diversity index for GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) is 34%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are 50 full-time-equivalent teachers at GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE), giving a ratio of 11.2:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 1.6 more students per teacher than here. A total of 443 students, or 79%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Queens County is close, at 77%.
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 56% of New York public elementary schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)'s results are 3.0 points above predicted: 48.9% against 46.0%.
American Community Survey estimates for Queens County show that median household income comes to about $86,136, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Queens County counts 392 public schools with about 268,205 students.
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)'s nearest public school is PS 38 ROSEDALE (about 0.3 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) is 7th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell 19% over 4 years, reaching 561 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.9:1 to 11.2:1 over the same years.
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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 #29
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 894 students
- IS 238 SUSAN B ANTHONY ACADEMYMiddle · 820 students
- PATHWAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 818 students
- PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEYElementary · 806 students
- PS 131 ABIGAIL ADAMSElementary · 754 students
Other schools in ROSEDALE
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALEElementary · 1,124 students
- PS/MS 138 SUNRISEElementary · 554 students
- PS 195 WILLIAM HABERLEElementary · 321 students
- PS 38 ROSEDALEElementary · 223 students
Nearby schools
- PS 38 ROSEDALE0.3 mi · 223
- PS 156 LAURELTON0.4 mi · 172
- QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 239
- PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS0.8 mi · 561
- PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE0.8 mi · 283
- MERRICK ACADEMY-QUEENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL0.9 mi · 732
Frequently asked questions
About GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)How many students attend GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)?
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 561 students in grades PK-08.
Is GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) have?
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
How diverse is GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)?
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) reports a student body of 1% White, 10% Hispanic, 80% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) in?
GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.