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Enrollment
1,124
Elementary
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010202451
PS 122 MAMIE FAY
21-21 DITMARS BLVD, ASTORIA, NY 11105 · (718) 721-6410 · Queens County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,124 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest 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
16.4:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
556 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 | 33 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 132 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 128 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 127 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 119 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 129 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 154 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 114 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 98 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 90 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (132) is 47% larger than its 8th grade class (90).
Student demographics
65%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
83.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
81.1%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 81.1% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 83.1% |
% 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
80.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% 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 23 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 122 MAMIE FAY
PS 122 MAMIE FAY's state test result (80.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 122 MAMIE FAY this school | 1,124 | 49.5% | 80.2% |
| PS 42 ELTINGVILLE STATEN ISLAND | 995 | 48.9% | 67.0% |
| PS 4 MAURICE WOLLIN STATEN ISLAND | 862 | 47.8% | 61.3% |
| PS 49 DOROTHY BONAWIT KOLE MIDDLE VILLAGE | 1,224 | 52.5% | 63.7% |
| PS 48 WILLIAM G WILCOX STATEN ISLAND | 964 | 52.2% | 71.5% |
| PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE STATEN ISLAND | 866 | 45.7% | 63.5% |
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 122 MAMIE FAY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #166 of 2,335 | #25 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.1% | #317 of 2,342 ▼ 96 | #44 of 219 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #177 of 2,343 ▼ 61 | #27 of 220 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,124 | #15 of 2,585 | #7 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #2,199 of 2,338 | #205 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.2% | #448 of 2,388 | #67 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.5% | #1,423 of 2,534 | #206 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.4% | #732 of 1,757 | #101 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
1,124
-140 (-11%) vs 2020
-20% since 2010-11, when it was 1,398
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 1,124 | 68.4 | 16.4:1 | 49% (556) |
| 2023-24 | 1,146 | 70.1 | 16.4:1 | 50% (575) |
| 2022-23 | 1,155 | 67.2 | 17.2:1 | 53% (612) |
| 2020-21 | 1,264 | 72 | 17.6:1 | 52% (655) |
| 2017-18 | 1,360 | 72 | 18.9:1 | 53% (722) |
| 2015-16 | 1,387 | 71 | 19.5:1 | 53% (738) |
| 2010-11 | 1,398 | 83 | 16.8:1 | 68% (944) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 122 MAMIE FAY.
About PS 122 MAMIE FAY
PS 122 MAMIE FAY operates as a large elementary school in ASTORIA, New York. It offers pre-K through 8 and has 1,124 students enrolled. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 154% higher.
PS 122 MAMIE FAY is in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, a district with 35,337 students across 53 schools.
More than half of the students at PS 122 MAMIE FAY are White (51%). Beyond that, enrollment is 22% Asian, 18% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. In Queens County overall, about 26% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
Staffing at PS 122 MAMIE FAY comes to 68.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.4:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. PS 122 MAMIE FAY counts 49% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 28 points.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 122 MAMIE FAY outscored 95%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
PS 122 MAMIE FAY outperforms its prediction by 23.4 points. The model expects 56.8% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New York; the school's rate is 80.2%.
In Queens County, home to about 2,323,052 people, median household income comes to about $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Queens County's 392 public schools enroll about 268,205 students and include PS 122 MAMIE FAY.
PS 122 MAMIE FAY's nearest public school is PS 85 JUDGE CHARLES VALLONE (about 0.5 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, PS 122 MAMIE FAY ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment was 1,124 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 1,264. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 17.6:1 to 16.4:1.
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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 #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
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- OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 681 students
- 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)Elementary · 525 students
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- PS 84 STEINWAYElementary · 353 students
- URBAN DOVE TEAM CHARTER SCHOOL IIIHigh · 55 students
- ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANSMiddle · 50 students
Nearby schools
- PS 85 JUDGE CHARLES VALLONE0.5 mi · 535
- IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)0.7 mi · 1,005
- YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP SCHOOL - ASTORIA0.8 mi · 579
- PS 84 STEINWAY0.8 mi · 353
- 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)0.9 mi · 525
- PS 17 HENRY DAVID THOREAU0.9 mi · 610
Frequently asked questions
About PS 122 MAMIE FAYHow large is PS 122 MAMIE FAY?
PS 122 MAMIE FAY enrolls approximately 1,124 students in grades PK-08.
Is PS 122 MAMIE FAY an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 122 MAMIE FAY is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does PS 122 MAMIE FAY have?
PS 122 MAMIE FAY employs 68 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 122 MAMIE FAY?
Student demographics at PS 122 MAMIE FAY are roughly 51% White, 18% Hispanic, 2% Black, 22% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is PS 122 MAMIE FAY in?
PS 122 MAMIE FAY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.