Enrollment
554
Elementary
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010202416
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL
37-15 13TH ST, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101 · (718) 786-2073 · Queens County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL554 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
13.3:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
539 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 35 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 6% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 43 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 45 | 8% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 60% larger than its 8th grade class (45).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
27.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
14.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 14.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 111 JACOB BLACKWELL
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL's state test result (22.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL this school | 554 | 97.3% | 22.3% |
| RANDOLPH HOLDER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) FAR ROCKAWAY | 542 | 96.3% | 28.9% |
| BRONX ACADEMY OF PROMISE CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 601 | 97.3% | 54.5% |
| PS/MS 29 MELROSE SCHOOL BRONX | 606 | 96.0% | 33.9% |
| PS 75 SCHOOL OF RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY BRONX | 509 | 98.6% | 53.3% |
| BRILLA VERITAS CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 569 | 92.4% | 53.8% |
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 111 JACOB BLACKWELL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.3% | #2,207 of 2,335 | #218 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #2,304 of 2,342 ▼ 59 | #219 of 219 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #2,173 of 2,343 ▼ 163 | #215 of 220 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 554 | #618 of 2,585 | #116 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #1,693 of 2,338 | #118 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.4% | #1,348 of 2,388 | #166 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.3% | #73 of 2,534 | #3 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +77.6% | #27 of 606 | #11 of 51 |
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
554
+230 (+71%) vs 2020
+20% since 2010-11, when it was 460
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 9.3:1
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 | 554 | 41.8 | 13.3:1 | 97% (539) |
| 2023-24 | 493 | 40.2 | 12.3:1 | 96% (475) |
| 2022-23 | 397 | 37.3 | 10.7:1 | 96% (380) |
| 2020-21 | 324 | 35 | 9.3:1 | 97% (313) |
| 2017-18 | 312 | 30 | 10.4:1 | 95% (296) |
| 2015-16 | 294 | 31 | 9.5:1 | 93% (273) |
| 2010-11 | 460 | 43 | 10.7:1 | 92% (423) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL.
About PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL is an elementary school with a street address in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York. Federal data show 554 students enrolled in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 25% larger than average.
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL is among 53 schools run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, which serves 35,337 students.
The share of Hispanic students at PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL is 66%, a majority. Smaller groups are 30% Black and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Queens County is roughly 28% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 47, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 41.8 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.3:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 12.8:1. Roughly 97% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is 77%.
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 8% of New York public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL is 16.9 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 22.3% actual, 39.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
In Queens County, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Queens County has 392 public schools with about 268,205 students, including PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL.
VOICE CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW YORK is the nearest public school to PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL, about 0.1 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL comes in 9th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL enrolled 324 in 2020-21 and 554 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. Students per teacher increased from 9.3 in 2020-21 to 13.3 in 2024-25.
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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 #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Other schools in LONG ISLAND CITY
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Nearby schools
- VOICE CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW YORK0.1 mi · 849
- PS 76 WILLIAM HALLET0.2 mi · 397
- PS 112 DUTCH KILLS0.3 mi · 521
- IS 204 OLIVER W HOLMES0.4 mi · 384
- ENERGY TECH HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 487
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 692
Frequently asked questions
About PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELLHow many students attend PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL?
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL enrolls approximately 554 students in grades PK-08.
Is PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL have?
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
How diverse is PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL?
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL reports a student body of 1% White, 66% Hispanic, 30% Black, 2% Asian.
What district is PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL in?
PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
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