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Which teacher or staff member at PS 102 BAYVIEW deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
1,107
Elementary
DISTRICT 789 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009802386
PS 102 BAYVIEW
55-24 VAN HORN ST, ELMHURST, NY 11373 · (718) 446-3308 · Queens County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,107 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
85 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
875 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
67.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,107
-224 (-17%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 16.4:1
% White
2%
was 3%
% Hispanic
31%
was 32%
% Black
3%
was 3%
% Asian
61%
was 58%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About PS 102 BAYVIEW
PS 102 BAYVIEW is an elementary school of large scale in ELMHURST, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, hosting 1,107 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 150% bigger than the state mean of about 443.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, which oversees 57 schools and 48,008 students, PS 102 BAYVIEW is one campus in the system.
Demographically, PS 102 BAYVIEW records that 61% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest comes out to 31% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PS 102 BAYVIEW has 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 102 BAYVIEW is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 45.9%; this one delivers 71.7%, a residual of +25.8 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Queens County) logs that median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. PS 102 BAYVIEW is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).
CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 102 BAYVIEW. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 102 BAYVIEW at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 63.1%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 1,331 students in 2018 compared to 1,107 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
- IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,203 students
- PS 7 LOUIS F SIMEONEElementary · 1,187 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
- CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 935
- CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II0.3 mi · 129
- FORTE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 561
- ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 460
- PS 7 LOUIS F SIMEONE0.5 mi · 1,187
- INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH SCIENCES0.5 mi · 292
Frequently asked questions
About PS 102 BAYVIEWHow large is PS 102 BAYVIEW?
PS 102 BAYVIEW enrolls approximately 1,107 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does PS 102 BAYVIEW serve?
PS 102 BAYVIEW serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 102 BAYVIEW?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 102 BAYVIEW is approximately 13.0:1 (85 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 102 BAYVIEW?
Student demographics at PS 102 BAYVIEW are roughly 2% White, 31% Hispanic, 3% Black, 61% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 102 BAYVIEW in?
PS 102 BAYVIEW is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.