PS 118 LORRAINE HANSBERRY

PS 118 LORRAINE HANSBERRY, a mid-tier elementary campus in SAINT ALBANS, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, teaches 398 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, which oversees 46 schools and 21,817 students, PS 118 LORRAINE HANSBERRY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 118 LORRAINE HANSBERRY shows that 55% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 4% Native American. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

In terms of school funding signals, PS 118 LORRAINE HANSBERRY shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 118 LORRAINE HANSBERRY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.4%, the actual is 48.1%, a residual of +1.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate 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%. PS 118 LORRAINE HANSBERRY is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

The closest other public school is PS 360, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 118 LORRAINE HANSBERRY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 118 LORRAINE HANSBERRY has ticked down 12%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 398 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 79% to 55% across the same window.

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