PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL

As a well-populated elementary-level community in EAST ELMHURST, New York, PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL hosts 1,061 students from grades pre-K through 8, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL sits 140% above that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, which oversees 53 schools and 35,337 students, PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 10% Asian, 5% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.2%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of -9.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is EAST ELMHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 127 AEROSPACE SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 1,295 (now 1,061). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 74% to 83%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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