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Enrollment
692
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360098706124
GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL
39-27 28TH ST, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101 · (347) 642-4306 · Queens County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL692 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
10.0:1
69 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
518 students
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 | 65 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 87 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 90 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 28% smaller than its 8th grade class (90).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
51.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
36.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -9.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 36.5% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 46.0% |
% 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
46.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL
GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (46.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 692 | 74.9% | 46.1% |
| WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 746 | 75.9% | 37.5% |
| PS 171 PATRICK HENRY NEW YORK | 738 | 78.9% | 85.5% |
| TRINITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW ROCHELLE | 838 | 71.0% | 37.6% |
| SCHOOL 5 YONKERS | 572 | 71.5% | 34.2% |
| GRAND CONCOURSE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 698 | 76.9% | 65.5% |
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 GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.1% | #1,338 of 2,335 | #161 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #1,953 of 2,342 ▼ 500 | #202 of 219 ▼ 34 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,291 of 2,343 ▼ 336 | #166 of 220 ▼ 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 692 | #280 of 2,585 | #69 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #444 of 2,338 | #21 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.6% | #577 of 2,388 | #86 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.9% | #900 of 2,534 | #138 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.2% | #703 of 1,757 | #96 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
692
-130 (-16%) vs 2020
+179% since 2010-11, when it was 248
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 692 | 69 | 10.0:1 | 75% (518) |
| 2023-24 | 767 | 75.5 | 10.2:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 723 | 69.1 | 10.5:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 822 | 77 | 10.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 846 | 85 | 9.9:1 | 54% (453) |
| 2015-16 | 706 | N/A | N/A | 0% (0) |
| 2010-11 | 248 | 12 | 20.7:1 | 60% (150) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL.
About GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL
LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, is home to GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL, a high-enrollment elementary school. The school serves 692 students in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students.
Federal records list GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL as its own district.
By race and ethnicity, GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL is 56% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 18% Black, 16% White, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Queens County's population at about 28%. The chance that two students picked at random at GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
The school employs the equivalent of 69 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 10.0:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL is 75%. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is about the same, 77%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL scores 46.1% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 47.5%.
Federal survey data for Queens County show that median household income is about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. A total of 392 public schools operate in Queens County, serving about 268,205 students.
Nearby, ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES is less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL places 5th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
NCES describes the area around GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL is a public charter school.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 822 to 692.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
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- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Nearby schools
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES0.1 mi · 1,206
- ATLAS0.1 mi · 1,162
- ENERGY TECH HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 487
- IS 204 OLIVER W HOLMES0.3 mi · 384
- PS 112 DUTCH KILLS0.3 mi · 521
- PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL0.4 mi · 554
Frequently asked questions
About GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOLHow large is GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 692 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL serve?
GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL is approximately 10.0:1 (69 FTE teachers).
How diverse is GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL reports a student body of 16% White, 56% Hispanic, 18% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL is overseen by GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.