PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL

PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL operates as a moderately sized primary school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. Current enrollment sits at 554 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% larger than the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 35,337 students; PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL is among them.

Looking at the student body, PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school reports 30% Black, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 97% of students at PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Queens County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 22.3%, a residual of -16.9 points.

In the surrounding community, 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 111 JACOB BLACKWELL is one.

Nearest neighbor: VOICE CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW YORK, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL has expanded 78%, going from 312 students in 2018 to 554 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 43% to 66%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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