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Enrollment
838
Elementary
DISTRICT 789 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009804563
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE
42-00 72ND ST, WOODSIDE, NY 11377 · (718) 424-5905 · Queens County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL838 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New York public elementary schools
- B+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
13.5:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
720 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 133 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 149 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 126 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 154 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 151 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (133) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (151).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
61.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
66.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 62.0% |
% 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
59.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 12 JAMES B COLGATE
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE's state test result (59.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE this school | 838 | 85.9% | 59.0% |
| PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON FLUSHING | 747 | 85.8% | 65.5% |
| PS 86 JAMAICA | 689 | 85.5% | 57.5% |
| PS 152 GWENDOLINE N ALLEYNE SCHOOL WOODSIDE | 628 | 85.4% | 57.9% |
| PS 21 EDWARD HART FLUSHING | 1,086 | 80.3% | 64.6% |
| PS 107 THOMAS A DOOLEY FLUSHING | 806 | 83.9% | 48.3% |
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 12 JAMES B COLGATE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #790 of 2,335 | #103 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #837 of 2,342 no change | #114 of 219 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #882 of 2,343 ▼ 181 | #118 of 220 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 838 | #113 of 2,585 | #32 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #1,766 of 2,338 | #134 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #973 of 2,388 | #131 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.9% | #571 of 2,534 | #67 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.1% | #264 of 1,757 | #34 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
838
-224 (-21%) vs 2020
-34% since 2010-11, when it was 1,274
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 838 | 62 | 13.5:1 | 86% (720) |
| 2023-24 | 841 | 58.9 | 14.3:1 | 87% (729) |
| 2022-23 | 855 | 62 | 13.8:1 | 85% (728) |
| 2020-21 | 1,062 | 75 | 14.2:1 | 89% (950) |
| 2017-18 | 1,217 | 77 | 15.8:1 | 89% (1,084) |
| 2015-16 | 1,273 | 79 | 16.1:1 | 89% (1,129) |
| 2010-11 | 1,274 | 83 | 15.3:1 | 88% (1,121) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE.
About PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE sits in WOODSIDE, New York, and is classified as an elementary school. Total enrollment is 838 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5. It has 89% more students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE is among 57 schools run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, which serves 48,008 students.
The share of Asian students at PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE is 54%, a majority. The remaining students are 38% Hispanic, 3% White, and 2% Native American. Census figures show Queens County is about 26% Asian. A diversity index of 56% means there is a 56% chance two randomly chosen students at PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE are from different groups.
There are 62 full-time-equivalent teachers at PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE, giving a ratio of 13.5:1. The ratio is within a point of the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. By family income, 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 9 points lower.
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 76% of New York public elementary schools.
A school with PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 43.4%. PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE scores 59.0%, 15.6 points above that line.
The school's county is Queens County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE shares Queens County with 391 other public schools.
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE is about 0.4 miles from IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE), its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE ranks 3rd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 59.0% against a local average of 58.9%.
NCES describes the area around PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 21%, from 1,062 to 838.
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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 #24
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCIMiddle · 2,131 students
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,581 students
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTETElementary · 1,506 students
Other schools in WOODSIDE
- IS 125 THOMAS J MCCANN WOODSIDEMiddle · 1,320 students
- PS 229 EMANUEL KAPLANElementary · 1,066 students
- RIVERVIEW SCHOOL (THE)Combined · 820 students
- ACADEMY OF THE CITY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 695 students
- PS 11 KATHRYN PHELANElementary · 689 students
- PS 152 GWENDOLINE N ALLEYNE SCHOOLElementary · 628 students
Nearby schools
- IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 1,203
- PS 69 JACKSON HEIGHTS0.5 mi · 764
- ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 460
- PS 229 EMANUEL KAPLAN0.6 mi · 1,066
- PS 7 LOUIS F SIMEONE0.6 mi · 1,187
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL 2 (THE)0.6 mi · 830
Frequently asked questions
About PS 12 JAMES B COLGATEHow large is PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE?
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE enrolls approximately 838 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE serve?
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE have?
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE employs 62 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE?
Student demographics at PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE are roughly 3% White, 38% Hispanic, 1% Black, 54% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE in?
PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.