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Enrollment
631
Elementary
DISTRICT 789 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009802474
PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY
69-10 65TH DR, MIDDLE VILLAGE, NY 11379 · (718) 326-6210 · Queens County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL631 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% 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
8.2:1
77 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
290 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 100 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 45% smaller than its 8th grade class (100).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
67.2%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 67.2% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 70.2% |
% 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
67.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY
PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY's state test result (67.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY this school | 631 | 46.0% | 67.5% |
| PS 31 SAMUEL F DUPONT BROOKLYN | 644 | 48.3% | 88.7% |
| PS 185 WALTER KASSENBROCK BROOKLYN | 577 | 42.3% | 73.2% |
| PS 132 CONSELYEA SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 564 | 45.6% | 77.8% |
| PS 207 ROCKWOOD PARK HOWARD BEACH | 668 | 37.6% | 63.7% |
| DANIEL STREET SCHOOL LINDENHURST | 495 | 42.0% | 43.9% |
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 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #467 of 2,335 | #61 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.2% | #789 of 2,342 ▼ 235 | #110 of 219 ▼ 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #513 of 2,343 ▼ 221 | #68 of 220 ▼ 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 631 | #387 of 2,585 | #85 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.2:1 | #73 of 2,338 | #8 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.5% | #774 of 2,388 | #111 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.0% | #1,521 of 2,534 | #213 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.9% | #193 of 1,757 | #22 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
631
-212 (-25%) vs 2020
-7% since 2010-11, when it was 676
Student : Teacher
8.2:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 631 | 77 | 8.2:1 | 46% (290) |
| 2023-24 | 624 | 47.3 | 13.2:1 | 48% (299) |
| 2022-23 | 638 | 69.2 | 9.2:1 | 41% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 843 | 57 | 14.8:1 | 30% (253) |
| 2017-18 | 970 | 62 | 15.6:1 | 36% (351) |
| 2015-16 | 951 | 54 | 17.6:1 | 34% (328) |
| 2010-11 | 676 | 37 | 18.3:1 | 30% (204) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY.
About PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY
PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY is a mid-sized elementary school in New York, located in MIDDLE VILLAGE. It has an enrollment of 631 students in kindergarten through 8. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 42% bigger than that mark.
The district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, has 48,008 students enrolled across 57 schools.
The student body at PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY is 57% White. Other students are 29% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. Among all residents of Queens County, the White share is about 26%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 59%.
The school's 77 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.2:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Income data for the school show 46% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Queens County report 77%.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY lands at A-, ahead of 81% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 67.5%, compared with a predicted 58.1%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Queens County, median household income comes to about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Queens County counts 392 public schools with about 268,205 students.
PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY's closest public school neighbor is MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY had a net loss of 212 students, or 25%. By 2024-25, the school had 8.2 students per teacher, compared with 14.8 in 2020-21.
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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
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- MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOLMiddle · 468 students
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- MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 468
- PS 49 DOROTHY BONAWIT KOLE0.6 mi · 1,224
- PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE0.8 mi · 541
- PS 91 RICHARD ARKWRIGHT0.8 mi · 771
- PS/IS 119 GLENDALE (THE)0.9 mi · 1,213
- PS 88 SENECA1.0 mi · 692
Frequently asked questions
About PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEYWhat is the total enrollment at PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY?
PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY enrolls approximately 631 students in grades KG-08.
Is PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY have?
PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY employs 77 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.2:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY?
Student demographics at PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY are roughly 57% White, 29% Hispanic, 2% Black, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY public or private?
PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.