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Enrollment
1,094
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012302405
PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER
108-10 109TH AVE, SOUTH OZONE PARK, NY 11420 · (718) 558-2700 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,094 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.1:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
1,028 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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 68 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 170 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 168 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 176 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 161 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 177 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 169 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (170) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (169).
Student demographics
66%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
73.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
76.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 69.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% 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 25 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 →
Schools most like PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER
PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER's state test result (65.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER this school | 1,094 | 94.0% | 65.3% |
| PS/MS 194 BRONX | 1,169 | 92.4% | 46.7% |
| SEEALL ACADEMY (THE) BROOKLYN | 851 | 90.4% | 66.7% |
| PS 95 EASTWOOD JAMAICA | 1,103 | 81.1% | 66.6% |
| PS 107 THOMAS A DOOLEY FLUSHING | 806 | 83.9% | 48.3% |
| PS 62 CHESTER PARK SCHOOL SOUTH RICHMOND HILL | 827 | 83.7% | 50.8% |
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 PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #550 of 2,335 | #74 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #482 of 2,342 ▲ 109 | #71 of 219 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #429 of 2,343 ▲ 139 | #57 of 220 ▲ 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,094 | #22 of 2,585 | #11 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #2,059 of 2,338 | #183 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.7% | #427 of 2,388 | #64 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.0% | #255 of 2,534 | #18 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.5% | #416 of 1,757 | #60 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
1,094
-195 (-15%) vs 2020
-20% since 2010-11, when it was 1,369
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 1,094 | 72.3 | 15.1:1 | 94% (1,028) |
| 2023-24 | 1,128 | 71.4 | 15.8:1 | 84% (948) |
| 2022-23 | 1,106 | 74.3 | 14.9:1 | 90% (997) |
| 2020-21 | 1,289 | 78 | 16.5:1 | 84% (1,082) |
| 2017-18 | 1,469 | 92 | 16.0:1 | 85% (1,249) |
| 2015-16 | 1,448 | 86 | 16.8:1 | 84% (1,212) |
| 2010-11 | 1,369 | 80 | 17.1:1 | 83% (1,139) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER.
About PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER
PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER is a large elementary school in SOUTH OZONE PARK, New York, one of the schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. It educates 1,094 students in pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 counts 63 schools and 39,209 students, including PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER.
PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 42%. Smaller groups are 39% Asian, 7% Native American, 6% Black, and 4% White. County-wide, 28% of Queens County residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 66%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1 at PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER, with 72.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 94%. For comparison, public schools in Queens County average 77%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER beats its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 24.9 points (65.3% versus 40.4%), a top-10% result in New York on BeatsExpectations.
County data help place the school in context: in Queens County, median household income is about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The public schools of Queens County number 392 and enroll about 268,205.
The closest public school to PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER is JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles of PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 65.3% is above the 52.6% average for nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 1,094, 15% below the 1,289 of 2020-21. Students per teacher fell from 16.5 in 2020-21 to 15.1 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 SOUTH OZONE PARK
- PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCHElementary · 1,008 students
- JHS 226 VIRGIL I GRISSONMiddle · 826 students
- PS 121Elementary · 750 students
- PS 100 GLEN MORRISElementary · 649 students
- PS 123Elementary · 596 students
- PS 155Elementary · 497 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 2,400
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES0.4 mi · 1,610
- PS 100 GLEN MORRIS0.5 mi · 649
- PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)0.6 mi · 378
- PS 62 CHESTER PARK SCHOOL0.7 mi · 827
- EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH0.8 mi · 435
Frequently asked questions
About PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLERWhat is the total enrollment at PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER?
PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER enrolls approximately 1,094 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER serve?
PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER.
How diverse is PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER?
PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER reports a student body of 4% White, 42% Hispanic, 6% Black, 39% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER in?
PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.