PIONEER ACADEMY

PIONEER ACADEMY is an elementary campus of expansive scale in CORONA, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, works with 687 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 55% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 57 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 (48,008 students total), PIONEER ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PIONEER ACADEMY reports that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, PIONEER ACADEMY shows 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PIONEER ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of -5.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. PIONEER ACADEMY is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 19 MARINO JEANTET, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PIONEER ACADEMY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 933 students in 2018 compared to 687 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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