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What advice would you give to incoming students at PS 120?
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Enrollment
748
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202444
PS 120
58-01 136TH ST, FLUSHING, NY 11355 · (718) 359-3390 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL748 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
674 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
59.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
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
53.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
748
-285 (-28%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 16.1:1
% White
2%
was 1%
% Hispanic
32%
was 14%
% Black
1%
was 0%
% Asian
64%
was 84%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About PS 120
PS 120 operates as a high-enrollment K-5 school in FLUSHING, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. Current enrollment sits at 748 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 120 sits 69% bigger than that benchmark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 33,704 students. PS 120 is one of those campuses.
On demographics, PS 120 logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Asian. Beyond that, the school records 32% Hispanic. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 90% of students at PS 120 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 120 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of +11.4 points.
Around the school, Queens County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 120 is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).
Nearest neighbor: IS 237, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 120 ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 72.1%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 120 has edged down 28%, going from 1,033 students in 2018 to 748 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share decreased from 84% to 64%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.
On allk12, the feed for PS 120 typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 #25
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
Other schools in FLUSHING
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
Nearby schools
- IS 2370.5 mi · 1,313
- EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES0.5 mi · 700
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,778
- QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE)0.6 mi · 536
- ACTIVE LEARNING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)0.6 mi · 458
- PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER0.7 mi · 596
Frequently asked questions
About PS 120What is the total enrollment at PS 120?
PS 120 enrolls approximately 748 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 120 an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 120 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 120?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at PS 120.
How diverse is PS 120?
PS 120 reports a student body of 2% White, 32% Hispanic, 1% Black, 64% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 120?
PS 120 is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.