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Enrollment
750
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010002448
PS 121
126-10 109TH AVE, SOUTH OZONE PARK, NY 11420 · (718) 558-1560 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL750 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of New York public elementary schools
- A+Test 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
16.6:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
567 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 | 35 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 122 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 128 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 115 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (105) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (132).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
88.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
88.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.0% | 88.0% |
| 2023-24 | 82.0% | 92.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
83.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+36.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 37 points, placing it in New York's top 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 121
PS 121's state test result (83.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 121 this school | 750 | 75.6% | 83.9% |
| BELLAIRE SCHOOL (THE) QUEENS VILLAGE | 699 | 75.8% | 43.5% |
| PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK QUEENS VILLAGE | 735 | 71.2% | 50.6% |
| PS 165 EDITH K BERGTRAUM FLUSHING | 606 | 75.6% | 64.5% |
| PS 62 CHESTER PARK SCHOOL SOUTH RICHMOND HILL | 827 | 83.7% | 50.8% |
| PS 126 JACOB AUGUST RIIS NEW YORK | 575 | 75.1% | 74.9% |
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 121 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.9% | #115 of 2,335 | #16 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #170 of 2,342 ▼ 82 | #23 of 219 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #104 of 2,343 ▼ 18 | #16 of 220 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 750 | #204 of 2,585 | #56 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #2,205 of 2,338 | #207 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.1% | #101 of 2,388 | #14 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.6% | #879 of 2,534 | #132 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.8% | #624 of 1,757 | #85 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
750
-17 (-2%) vs 2020
-26% since 2010-11, when it was 1,008
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 750 | 45.1 | 16.6:1 | 76% (567) |
| 2023-24 | 711 | 45 | 15.8:1 | 77% (548) |
| 2022-23 | 715 | 46 | 15.5:1 | 77% (554) |
| 2020-21 | 767 | 45 | 17.0:1 | 67% (517) |
| 2017-18 | 935 | 60 | 15.6:1 | 82% (769) |
| 2015-16 | 956 | 56 | 17.1:1 | 79% (755) |
| 2010-11 | 1,008 | 72 | 14.0:1 | 93% (933) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 121.
About PS 121
PS 121 is a large elementary school in SOUTH OZONE PARK, New York, (ZIP code 11420). It offers pre-K through 5 and has 750 students enrolled. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 69% higher.
The district for PS 121 is NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, with 50 schools and 36,340 students.
The biggest share of students at PS 121, 42%, is Asian. The rest of enrollment is 21% Native American, 16% Hispanic, 13% Black, and 4% Pacific Islander. Census estimates put the Asian share of Queens County's population at about 26%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 121 scores 73%.
Staffing at PS 121 comes to 45.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. PS 121 counts 76% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Queens County is similar, at 77%.
PS 121 holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 96% of New York public elementary schools.
Test results at PS 121 are 36.7 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 83.9%, compared with a predicted 47.2%, which ranks in the top 10% in New York.
Census data for Queens County show median household income comes to about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, PS 121 among them.
Among nearby public schools, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-NYC 14 is closest at about 0.1 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of PS 121. PS 121 places 1st of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES assigns PS 121 the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 767 to 750.
The PS 121 discussion page is a place for open houses, carpools, and field trips. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Other schools in SOUTH OZONE PARK
- PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLERElementary · 1,094 students
- PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCHElementary · 1,008 students
- JHS 226 VIRGIL I GRISSONMiddle · 826 students
- PS 100 GLEN MORRISElementary · 649 students
- PS 123Elementary · 596 students
- PS 155Elementary · 497 students
Nearby schools
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-NYC 140.1 mi · 168
- PS 1550.4 mi · 497
- PS 100 GLEN MORRIS0.4 mi · 649
- PS 161 ARTHUR ASHE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 558
- EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH0.6 mi · 435
- JHS 226 VIRGIL I GRISSON0.6 mi · 826
Frequently asked questions
About PS 121What is the total enrollment at PS 121?
PS 121 enrolls approximately 750 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 121 an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 121 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 121?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at PS 121.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 121?
At PS 121, the student body is approximately 1% White, 16% Hispanic, 13% Black, 42% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 121?
PS 121 is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.