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Enrollment
1,005
Middle
DISTRICT 697 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010202514
IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)
37-11 21ST AVE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11105 · (718) 278-6403 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,005 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
75 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
693 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 347 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 312 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 346 | 34% |
Student demographics
68%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
67.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -10.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 67.3% |
% 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
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)
IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)'s state test result (65.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) this school | 1,005 | 69.0% | 65.3% |
| JHS 88 PETER ROUGET BROOKLYN | 843 | 63.9% | 56.4% |
| IS 318 EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS BROOKLYN | 1,028 | 62.3% | 66.7% |
| IS 2 GEORGE L EGBERT STATEN ISLAND | 980 | 77.9% | 57.1% |
| IS 27 ANNING S PRALL STATEN ISLAND | 836 | 78.2% | 50.2% |
| MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDER BROOKLYN | 1,038 | 60.2% | 67.9% |
Matched among New York middle 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 IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #195 of 766 | #17 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #413 of 768 ▼ 124 | #34 of 57 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #125 of 768 ▲ 2 | #16 of 57 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,005 | #75 of 796 | #16 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #628 of 683 | #37 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.6% | #93 of 688 | #13 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.0% | #298 of 773 | #49 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.5% | #329 of 524 | #32 of 43 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,005
-161 (-14%) vs 2020
-2% since 2010-11, when it was 1,024
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 1,005 | 75 | 13.4:1 | 69% (693) |
| 2023-24 | 1,008 | 78.8 | 12.8:1 | 70% (702) |
| 2022-23 | 1,049 | 82 | 12.8:1 | 64% (675) |
| 2020-21 | 1,166 | 84 | 13.9:1 | 72% (838) |
| 2017-18 | 1,111 | 66 | 16.8:1 | 61% (678) |
| 2015-16 | 1,165 | 66 | 17.6:1 | 48% (564) |
| 2010-11 | 1,024 | 60 | 17.1:1 | 83% (850) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IS 141 STEINWAY (THE).
About IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)
A large middle-grades school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. It educates 1,005 students in grades 6 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in New York is about 531 students.
IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) falls under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, which has 53 schools enrolling 35,337 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at IS 141 STEINWAY (THE). The largest is White students, at 39%. The remaining students are 39% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Queens County is about 26% White. IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)'s diversity index is 68%, against a US figure of 70%.
IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) operates with 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 13.4:1. On average, middle schools in New York have 10.3:1, compared with 13.4:1 here. IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) reports 69% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Measured against New York public middle schools, IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) 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, IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) is 15.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Queens County has these Census figures: the median household income is $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Queens County is home to 392 public schools and about 268,205 public school students.
PS 84 STEINWAY is the public school closest to IS 141 STEINWAY (THE), about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) is 5th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)'s enrollment declined from 1,166 in 2020-21 to 1,005 in 2024-25.
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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 LONG ISLAND CITY
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Nearby schools
- PS 84 STEINWAY0.3 mi · 353
- PS 85 JUDGE CHARLES VALLONE0.6 mi · 535
- PS 2 ALFRED ZIMBERG0.7 mi · 583
- PS 122 MAMIE FAY0.7 mi · 1,124
- PS 701.1 mi · 770
- YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP SCHOOL - ASTORIA1.1 mi · 579
Frequently asked questions
About IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)How large is IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)?
IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) enrolls approximately 1,005 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) serve?
IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) is approximately 13.4:1 (75 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)?
Student demographics at IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) are roughly 39% White, 39% Hispanic, 4% Black, 15% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) in?
IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
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