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Alumni: what's one memory from IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
1,555
Middle
DISTRICT 697 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010203146
IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG
32-02 JUNCTION BLVD, EAST ELMHURST, NY 11369 · (718) 335-7500 · Queens County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,555 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
97 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
1,043 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 5 | 185 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 461 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 454 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 440 | 28% |
| Ungraded | 15 | 1% |
Student demographics
74%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
79.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
85.8%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 85.8% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 82.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
77.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in New York's top 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 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG
IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG's state test result (77.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG this school | 1,555 | 67.1% | 77.0% |
| MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDER BROOKLYN | 1,038 | 60.2% | 67.9% |
| IS 72 ROCCO LAURIE STATEN ISLAND | 1,532 | 70.0% | 58.8% |
| JHS 190 RUSSELL SAGE FOREST HILLS | 935 | 61.3% | 64.4% |
| IS 2 GEORGE L EGBERT STATEN ISLAND | 980 | 77.9% | 57.1% |
| IS 141 STEINWAY (THE) LONG ISLAND CITY | 1,005 | 69.0% | 65.3% |
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 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #73 of 766 | #6 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.8% | #140 of 768 ▲ 18 | #7 of 57 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #49 of 768 ▲ 20 | #5 of 57 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,555 | #7 of 796 | #5 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #672 of 683 | #51 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.2% | #17 of 688 | #4 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.1% | #307 of 773 | #50 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.8% | #493 of 524 | #40 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
1,555
+7 (+0%) vs 2020
+6% since 2010-11, when it was 1,462
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 1,555 | 96.5 | 16.1:1 | 67% (1,043) |
| 2023-24 | 1,561 | 91.4 | 17.1:1 | 69% (1,076) |
| 2022-23 | 1,528 | 95 | 16.1:1 | 68% (1,036) |
| 2020-21 | 1,548 | 97 | 16.0:1 | 69% (1,071) |
| 2017-18 | 1,583 | 95 | 16.7:1 | 74% (1,167) |
| 2015-16 | 1,568 | 95 | 16.5:1 | 74% (1,167) |
| 2010-11 | 1,462 | 87 | 16.8:1 | 76% (1,104) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG.
About IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Among the schools in EAST ELMHURST, New York, is IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG, a large middle school. The school's 1,555 students are in grades 5 through 8. Statewide, middle schools in New York average about 531 students each.
The 53 schools of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, including IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG, enroll 35,337 students.
Hispanic students form the largest group at IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG, 37% of enrollment. Other groups make up 25% Asian, 19% White, 14% Black, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 28% of Queens County residents are Hispanic. IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG has a diversity index of 74%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG total 96.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 16.1:1. For comparison, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 67%. It compares with 77% for public schools in Queens County.
Measured against New York public middle schools, IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG 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.
In New York, IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 77.0% compared with a predicted 50.3%.
Across Queens County, median household income is about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The public schools of Queens County number 392 and enroll about 268,205.
Nearest public school: IVAN LAFAYETTE EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE), less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG ranks 1st of 7 on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG is City: Large.
Enrollment at IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG was 1,548 in 2020-21 and 1,555 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. 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
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 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
- PS 122 MAMIE FAYElementary · 1,124 students
Other schools in EAST ELMHURST
- PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 1,061 students
- PS 148Elementary · 653 students
- PS 2 ALFRED ZIMBERGElementary · 583 students
- EAST ELMHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
- IVAN LAFAYETTE EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)Elementary · 222 students
- ROSE M SINGER CENTERHigh · 4 students
Nearby schools
- IVAN LAFAYETTE EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)0.1 mi · 222
- PS 149 CHRISTA MCAULIFFE0.2 mi · 706
- PS 1480.2 mi · 653
- EAST ELMHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 433
- PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS0.3 mi · 447
- PS 92 HARRY T STEWART SR0.3 mi · 867
Frequently asked questions
About IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGHow many students attend IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG?
IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG enrolls approximately 1,555 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG serve?
IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many teachers does IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG have?
IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG employs 97 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
How diverse is IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG?
IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG reports a student body of 19% White, 37% Hispanic, 14% Black, 25% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG?
IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.