PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE)

PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, educateing 600 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE) sits 35% above that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, which oversees 63 schools and 39,209 students, PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE) logs that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 44% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Queens County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE) is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.7%; PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE) posts 20.1%, -19.6 points below that line.

Around the school, Queens County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE) is one.

GOLDIE MAPLE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE) comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE) has contracted 25%, going from 803 students in 2018 to 600 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 63% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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