PS 130
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PS 130
PS 130 is an elementary-level community of modestly sized scale in BAYSIDE, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, educateing 361 students in grades pre-K through 5.
PS 130 is one of 46 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, a district that works with 33,704 students overall.
Looking at the student body, PS 130 logs that 65% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 12% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 58% 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 somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 130 ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 53.8%; PS 130 posts 84.2%, +30.4 points above that line.
In the broader community, 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%. PS 130 is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).
Nearest neighbor: IS 25 ADRIEN BLOCK, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 130 comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.2%.
PS 130 operates from a high-density location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 130 has declined 9%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 361 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 55% to 65% across the same window.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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