PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH

PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH is one of the substantial elementary campuss in SOUTH OZONE PARK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, with 1,008 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH sits 128% bigger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 runs 63 schools in total, collectively educating 39,209 students. PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH shows that the largest single group is Asian at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 16% Black, 13% Native American, 4% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Queens County's rate of about 77%.

With demographic context factored in, PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 53.1%, a residual of +9.2 points.

In the broader community, Queens County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 96, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 62.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 18%: 1,225 students in 2018 compared to 1,008 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 47% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.