Enrollment
157
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012302398
LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
180 BEACH 35TH ST, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691 · (718) 327-5828 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL157 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
151 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 9 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 25 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 21 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 21 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 22 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (22).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
31.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
27.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 17.0% |
% 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
22.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (22.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 157 | 96.2% | 22.3% |
| STEM INSTITUTE OF MANHATTAN NEW YORK | 140 | 95.0% | 32.5% |
| PS 67 CHARLES A DORSEY BROOKLYN | 163 | 96.3% | 26.7% |
| PS 194 COUNTEE CULLEN NEW YORK | 144 | 100.0% | 26.5% |
| PS 256 BENJAMIN BANNEKER BROOKLYN | 178 | 94.9% | 25.2% |
| FRESH CREEK SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 190 | 96.8% | 68.5% |
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 LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.3% | #2,206 of 2,335 | #217 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #2,152 of 2,342 ▲ 102 | #212 of 219 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #2,093 of 2,343 ▲ 70 | #210 of 220 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 157 | #2,484 of 2,585 | #228 of 230 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.2% | #138 of 2,534 | #8 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.3% | #358 of 1,757 | #47 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
157
+5 (+3%) vs 2020
-55% since 2010-11, when it was 350
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 8.4:1
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 | 157 | 18.3 | 8.6:1 | 96% (151) |
| 2023-24 | 149 | 18 | 8.3:1 | 98% (146) |
| 2022-23 | 152 | 18.8 | 8.1:1 | 93% (142) |
| 2020-21 | 152 | 18 | 8.4:1 | 95% (145) |
| 2017-18 | 216 | 24 | 9.0:1 | 93% (201) |
| 2015-16 | 227 | 20 | 11.3:1 | 91% (206) |
| 2010-11 | 350 | 25 | 14.0:1 | 98% (342) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a very small elementary school based in FAR ROCKAWAY, New York. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 157 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 65% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
Besides LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 runs 62 other schools. The district enrolls 39,209 students.
More than half of the students at LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Black (54%). Other reported shares: 37% Hispanic, 3% White, and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 17% Black among all Queens County residents. The diversity index for LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 57%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 18.3 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.6:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 4.3 more students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 96% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 77% average among public schools in Queens County.
LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 10% of New York public elementary schools.
LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (22.3%) and its predicted rate (39.6%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
In Queens County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, PS 43, is about 0.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 8th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES describes the area around LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 152 to 157, a 3% rise.
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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
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Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
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Other schools in FAR ROCKAWAY
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- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FAR ROCKAWAYElementary · 728 students
- ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 605 students
- PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 600 students
- PS 43Elementary · 574 students
- PS 104 BAYS WATER (THE)Elementary · 542 students
Other Lighthouse Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Lighthouse Elementary. LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 4.
- LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLJUPITER, FL · 569 students
- Lighthouse Elementary SchoolNEW BALTIMORE, MI · 441 students
- Lighthouse Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 273 students
Nearby schools
- PS 430.3 mi · 574
- CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,218
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY0.5 mi · 507
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 311
- KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREPARATORY ACADEMY VI0.5 mi · 281
- ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL0.5 mi · 605
Frequently asked questions
About LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 157 students in grades PK-05.
Is LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 8.6:1 students per teacher at LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 37% Hispanic, 54% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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