PS 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONG

PS 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONG is one of the sizable K-5 schools in CORONA, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, with 1,344 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONG sits 203% larger than that benchmark.

PS 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONG is one of 57 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, a district that serves 48,008 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONG lists that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Queens County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONG performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -17.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Queens County put 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 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONG is one.

HELEN M MARSHALL SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONG ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONG's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,508 (now 1,344).

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