IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER

As a sprawling 6-8 campus in JACKSON HEIGHTS, New York, IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER works with 1,397 students from grades 6 through 8, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. That puts it 163% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER is one of 53 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, a district that works with 35,337 students overall.

Looking at the student body, IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER shows that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% Asian. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 104 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.0%; this one delivers 51.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER is one campus in the mix.

PS 212 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.4%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER has shrank 18%, going from 1,696 students in 2018 to 1,397 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 88% to 92% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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