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If you could change one rule at PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,061
Elementary
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010202470
PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL
98-01 25TH AVE, EAST ELMHURST, NY 11369 · (718) 446-4700 · Queens County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,061 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
12.4:1
86 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
916 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 | 48 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 121 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 120 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 122 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 148 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 120 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 30% smaller than its 8th grade class (120).
Student demographics
30%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
35.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
34.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL
PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL's state test result (34.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL this school | 1,061 | 86.3% | 34.0% |
| NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 881 | 87.5% | 26.9% |
| NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 937 | 88.4% | 29.4% |
| PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS BRONX | 1,091 | 95.1% | 44.4% |
| PS 92 HARRY T STEWART SR CORONA | 867 | 87.0% | 42.3% |
| EQUITY PROJECT CHARTER SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 1,075 | 92.7% | 57.5% |
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 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #1,878 of 2,335 | #200 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,759 of 2,342 ▲ 113 | #192 of 219 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,984 of 2,343 ▼ 547 | #208 of 220 ▼ 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,061 | #34 of 2,585 | #16 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #1,407 of 2,338 | #76 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.4% | #1,873 of 2,388 | #201 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.3% | #556 of 2,534 | #65 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #705 of 1,757 | #97 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
1,061
-34 (-3%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 1,309
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 1,061 | 85.9 | 12.4:1 | 86% (916) |
| 2023-24 | 1,154 | 84.5 | 13.7:1 | 83% (958) |
| 2022-23 | 1,056 | 81 | 13.0:1 | 81% (853) |
| 2020-21 | 1,095 | 78 | 14.0:1 | 85% (933) |
| 2017-18 | 1,295 | 86 | 15.1:1 | 85% (1,105) |
| 2015-16 | 1,339 | 96 | 13.9:1 | 84% (1,129) |
| 2010-11 | 1,309 | 83 | 15.8:1 | 90% (1,183) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL.
About PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL
PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is classified as an elementary school. It is located in EAST ELMHURST, New York. The school enrolls 1,061 students in pre-K through 8. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 140% larger than average.
PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, whose 53 schools enroll 35,337 students.
By race and ethnicity, PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is 83% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 10% Asian and 5% Black. The school's Hispanic share is 55 points above the 28% share among Queens County residents. A diversity index of 30% means there is a 30% chance two randomly chosen students at PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL are from different groups.
There are 85.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 12.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is similar, at 12.8:1. A total of 916 students, or 86%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 24% of New York public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is 9.2 points below its prediction. Actual: 34.0%. Predicted: 43.2%.
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 the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 392 public schools and about 268,205 students.
The closest school to PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is EAST ELMHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOL, located about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL ranks 7th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 34.0% against a local average of 44.4%.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 1,061, compared with 1,095 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 14.0 in 2020-21 to 12.4 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
Other schools in EAST ELMHURST
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- PS 148Elementary · 653 students
- PS 2 ALFRED ZIMBERGElementary · 583 students
- EAST ELMHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
- IVAN LAFAYETTE EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)Elementary · 222 students
- ROSE M SINGER CENTERHigh · 4 students
Nearby schools
- EAST ELMHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 433
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG0.5 mi · 1,555
- IVAN LAFAYETTE EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)0.6 mi · 222
- PS 1480.6 mi · 653
- PS 92 HARRY T STEWART SR0.6 mi · 867
- PS 149 CHRISTA MCAULIFFE0.7 mi · 706
Frequently asked questions
About PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOLHow large is PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL?
PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,061 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL serve?
PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.4:1 students per teacher at PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL.
How diverse is PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL?
PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 83% Hispanic, 5% Black, 10% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL public or private?
PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.