Enrollment
361
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012306036
NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY
95-16 89TH AVE, WOODHAVEN, NY 11421 · (718) 441-2165 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL361 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
12.1:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
317 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 | 28 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
50%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
42.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 45.0% |
% 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
40.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY
NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY's state test result (40.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY this school | 361 | 87.8% | 40.2% |
| YOUNG VOICES ACADEMY OF THE BRONX BRONX | 363 | 88.2% | 47.3% |
| PS 273 RICHMOND HILL | 329 | 87.8% | 50.8% |
| BEDFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRONX | 439 | 88.4% | 31.1% |
| PS 239 RIDGEWOOD | 414 | 86.7% | 30.0% |
| ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ELMHURST | 460 | 82.6% | 63.6% |
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 NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #1,610 of 2,335 | #182 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,436 of 2,342 ▲ 45 | #180 of 219 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,697 of 2,343 ▼ 216 | #192 of 220 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 361 | #1,603 of 2,585 | #189 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #1,313 of 2,338 | #69 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.6% | #1,248 of 2,388 | #156 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.8% | #507 of 2,534 | #53 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #919 of 1,757 | #117 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
361
+14 (+4%) vs 2020
+12% since 2010-11, when it was 321
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 361 | 29.8 | 12.1:1 | 88% (317) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 28 | 12.3:1 | 86% (295) |
| 2022-23 | 344 | 26 | 13.2:1 | 85% (292) |
| 2020-21 | 347 | 26 | 13.3:1 | 86% (300) |
| 2017-18 | 419 | 32 | 13.1:1 | 84% (351) |
| 2015-16 | 467 | 34 | 13.7:1 | 84% (391) |
| 2010-11 | 321 | 25 | 12.8:1 | 83% (266) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY.
About NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY
A low-enrollment elementary school in WOODHAVEN, New York, NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 361 students in 2024-25.
NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is one of 63 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, which enrolls 39,209 students in total.
The student body at NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is 69% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 13% Asian, 5% Black, 5% White, and 3% Native American. Among all residents of Queens County, the Hispanic share is about 28%. A diversity index of 50% means there is a 50% chance two randomly chosen students at NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY are from different groups.
A staff of 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 12.1:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 88%. The average for public schools in Queens County is 77%.
On the allk12 Grade, NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY lands at C+, ahead of 40% of New York public elementary schools.
Test results at NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY are 2.5 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (40.2% actual, 42.7% predicted).
Queens County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY shares Queens County with 391 other public schools.
The closest school to NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is PS 60 WOODHAVEN, located about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY ranks 9th on average proficiency.
NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 361, up from 347 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 12.1 students per teacher, compared with 13.3 in 2020-21.
NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 #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
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
Other schools in WOODHAVEN
- PS 60 WOODHAVENElementary · 957 students
- PS 97 FOREST PARKElementary · 575 students
Nearby schools
- PS 60 WOODHAVEN0.2 mi · 957
- PS 2730.3 mi · 329
- PS 254 ROSA PARKS SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 525
- HIGH SCHOOL-CONSTRUCTION TRADES ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE0.4 mi · 1,074
- PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS0.4 mi · 470
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL0.5 mi · 1,459
Frequently asked questions
About NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERYHow large is NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY?
NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY enrolls approximately 361 students in grades PK-05.
Is NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY an elementary, middle, or high school?
NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY have?
NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the student diversity at NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY?
Student demographics at NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY are roughly 5% White, 69% Hispanic, 5% Black, 13% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY public or private?
NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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