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If you could change one rule at JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE), what would it be?
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Enrollment
526
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010006284
JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE)
126-10 BEDELL ST, JAMAICA, NY 11434 · (718) 276-1348 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL526 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% 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
11.2:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
428 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 57 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
53.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +18.0pp since 2023
Math
66.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 52.0% |
% 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
46.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE)
JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE)'s state test result (46.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) this school | 526 | 81.4% | 46.3% |
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 3 BRONX | 512 | 81.8% | 74.1% |
| EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 574 | 82.1% | 65.9% |
| PS/MS 138 SUNRISE ROSEDALE | 554 | 79.1% | 36.7% |
| PS 66 BROOKLYN | 527 | 80.5% | 51.5% |
| NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY BROOKLYN | 431 | 81.2% | 54.5% |
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 JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #1,319 of 2,335 | #160 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #840 of 2,342 ▲ 359 | #117 of 219 ▲ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,209 of 2,343 ▲ 299 | #156 of 220 ▲ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 526 | #709 of 2,585 | #130 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #946 of 2,338 | #43 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.9% | #1,357 of 2,388 | #167 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.4% | #726 of 2,534 | #105 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #853 of 1,757 | #108 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
526
+47 (+10%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 526 | 46.8 | 11.2:1 | 81% (428) |
| 2023-24 | 502 | 42.8 | 11.7:1 | 79% (395) |
| 2022-23 | 493 | 36.2 | 13.6:1 | 73% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 479 | 35 | 13.7:1 | 72% (343) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 39 | 15.9:1 | 77% (476) |
| 2015-16 | 633 | 44 | 14.4:1 | 83% (525) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE).
About JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE)
This page covers JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE), a mid-sized elementary school in JAMAICA, New York. There are 526 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5.
The 50 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 enroll 36,340 students altogether, JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) among them.
Of every 100 students at JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE), about 70 are Black. It is also 20% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% Native American. Queens County's residents are about 17% Black, 53 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) scores 47%.
There are 46.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE), giving a ratio of 11.2:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. By family income, 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public elementary schools, JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) outscored 51%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) is 1.3 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 46.3% actual, 45.1% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Census data for Queens County show the median household earns about $86,136 a year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE), Queens County has 392 public schools.
JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE)'s closest public school neighbor is ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE), there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 46.3% is below the 50.5% average for nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school grew from 479 students in 2020-21 to 526 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.7:1 to 11.2:1.
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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 #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Other schools in JAMAICA
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL IIElementary · 810 students
Nearby schools
- ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 433
- REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 270
- CATHERINE & COUNT BASIE MIDDLE SCHOOL 720.4 mi · 329
- PS 80 THURGOOD MARSHALL MAGNET SCHOOL OF MULTIMEDIA (THE)0.5 mi · 363
- AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 643
- VOYAGES PREP-SOUTH QUEENS0.6 mi · 217
Frequently asked questions
About JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE)How large is JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE)?
JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) enrolls approximately 526 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) serve?
JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE)?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE).
How diverse is JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE)?
JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) reports a student body of 2% White, 20% Hispanic, 70% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) in?
JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.