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.

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