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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
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
13.4:1
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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 123 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 121 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 128 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 124 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (124).
Student demographics
48%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
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.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
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 →
Schools most like PS 120
PS 120's state test result (53.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 120 this school | 748 | 90.1% | 53.2% |
| PS 214 MICHAEL FRIEDSAM BROOKLYN | 728 | 88.9% | 42.5% |
| PS 169 SUNSET PARK BROOKLYN | 755 | 96.4% | 52.5% |
| PS 94 HENRY LONGFELLOW (THE) BROOKLYN | 819 | 98.2% | 55.4% |
| PS 179 KENSINGTON BROOKLYN | 660 | 93.9% | 43.1% |
| PS 20 JOHN BOWNE FLUSHING | 995 | 87.2% | 55.0% |
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 120 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.2% | #1,038 of 2,335 | #128 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #1,096 of 2,342 ▼ 399 | #143 of 219 ▼ 49 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,545 of 2,343 ▼ 626 | #186 of 220 ▼ 63 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 748 | #209 of 2,585 | #58 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,726 of 2,338 | #126 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.4% | #1,311 of 2,388 | #162 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.1% | #411 of 2,534 | #36 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.6% | #350 of 1,757 | #44 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
748
-81 (-10%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 885
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 748 | 56 | 13.4:1 | 90% (674) |
| 2023-24 | 766 | 54.1 | 14.2:1 | 89% (684) |
| 2022-23 | 699 | 50.2 | 13.9:1 | 82% (576) |
| 2020-21 | 829 | 54 | 15.3:1 | 76% (630) |
| 2017-18 | 1,033 | 64 | 16.1:1 | 75% (773) |
| 2015-16 | 1,058 | 56 | 18.9:1 | 50% (526) |
| 2010-11 | 885 | 52 | 17.0:1 | 80% (712) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 120.
About PS 120
As a large elementary school, PS 120 serves students in FLUSHING, New York. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 748 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 69% above average.
PS 120 reports to NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, which has 46 schools and 33,704 students.
By race and ethnicity, PS 120 is 64% Asian. After that, the student body is 32% Hispanic. Census figures show Queens County is about 26% Asian. PS 120 has a diversity index of 48%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teacher staffing is 56 full-time equivalents, or about 13.4 students per teacher. Elementary schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 12.8:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at PS 120 is 90%. The rate at public schools in Queens County averages 77%, lower than here.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 120 receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, PS 120 would be expected to post about 41.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 53.2%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Queens County show that median household income is about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 392 public schools in Queens County, with a combined enrollment of about 268,205.
EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. PS 120's average proficiency of 53.2% compares with 72.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
PS 120 is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Federal counts put enrollment at 829 in 2020-21 and 748 in 2024-25, a 10% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2020-21 to 13.4:1 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 #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
- EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES0.5 mi · 700
- IS 2370.5 mi · 1,313
- 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.