PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN

PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN is a well-populated elementary campus in COLLEGE POINT, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. The school works with 1,071 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 142% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 46 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 (33,704 students total), PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN lists that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Asian, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 86% of students at PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 46.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Queens County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

Nearest neighbor: COLLEGE POINT COLLABORATIVE, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.

PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,094 students in 2018 to 1,071 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 52% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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