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What do students at IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
1,203
Middle
DISTRICT 1,140 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009803117
IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)
50-40 JACOBUS ST, ELMHURST, NY 11373 · (718) 205-6788 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,203 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 73% of New York public middle schools
- BTest 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
11.8:1
102 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
1,066 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 419 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 381 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 403 | 33% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
57.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
59.4%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 59.4% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 53.9% |
% 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
56.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)
IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (56.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) this school | 1,203 | 88.6% | 56.1% |
| MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES OZONE PARK | 1,610 | 82.5% | 57.7% |
| IS 230 JACKSON HEIGHTS | 949 | 79.9% | 55.7% |
| JHS 202 ROBERT H GODDARD OZONE PARK | 907 | 80.4% | 57.7% |
| JHS 227 EDWARD B SHALLOW BROOKLYN | 1,327 | 88.8% | 65.9% |
| IS 125 THOMAS J MCCANN WOODSIDE WOODSIDE | 1,320 | 86.4% | 52.9% |
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 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #323 of 766 | #29 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #380 of 768 ▲ 36 | #30 of 57 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #232 of 768 ▼ 15 | #26 of 57 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,203 | #41 of 796 | #13 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #535 of 683 | #23 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.3% | #300 of 688 | #36 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.6% | #154 of 773 | #14 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.0% | #68 of 524 | #6 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
1,203
-449 (-27%) vs 2020
-21% since 2010-11, when it was 1,517
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 1,203 | 102 | 11.8:1 | 89% (1,066) |
| 2023-24 | 1,297 | 103.2 | 12.6:1 | 89% (1,150) |
| 2022-23 | 1,395 | 109.9 | 12.7:1 | 83% (1,162) |
| 2020-21 | 1,652 | 134 | 12.3:1 | 81% (1,343) |
| 2017-18 | 1,796 | 123.9 | 14.5:1 | 79% (1,419) |
| 2015-16 | 1,824 | 112 | 16.3:1 | 60% (1,098) |
| 2010-11 | 1,517 | 98 | 15.5:1 | 89% (1,355) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE).
About IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)
IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) is a large middle school in ELMHURST, New York, one of the schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24. The school's 1,203 students are in grades 6 through 8. Statewide, middle schools in New York average about 531 students each.
The NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 system has 57 schools and 48,008 students.
A majority of students at IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE), 57%, are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 39% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 28%. IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) has a diversity index of 52%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)'s 102 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 11.8:1. For comparison, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 89%. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 12 points.
The allk12 Grade for IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) is B+. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 73% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 56.1% actual against 42.4% predicted.
Census estimates describe Queens County this way: median household income is about $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Queens County number 392 and enroll about 268,205.
The school nearest to IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) is ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Within five miles of IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE), there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) places 8th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) went from 1,652 students to 1,203.
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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 #24
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCIMiddle · 2,131 students
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,581 students
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTETElementary · 1,506 students
Other schools in ELMHURST
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- PS 7 LOUIS F SIMEONEElementary · 1,187 students
- PS 102 BAYVIEWElementary · 1,107 students
- PS 89 JOSE PERALTA SCHOOL OF DREAMERS (THE)Elementary · 1,047 students
- MASPETH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,001 students
- CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 935 students
Nearby schools
- ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 460
- PS 7 LOUIS F SIMEONE0.3 mi · 1,187
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL 2 (THE)0.4 mi · 830
- PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE0.4 mi · 838
- FORTE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.5 mi · 561
- PS 229 EMANUEL KAPLAN0.5 mi · 1,066
Frequently asked questions
About IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)How large is IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)?
IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 1,203 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) serve?
IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) is approximately 11.8:1 (102 FTE teachers).
How diverse is IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)?
IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) reports a student body of 2% White, 57% Hispanic, 1% Black, 39% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) public or private?
IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24.
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