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Enrollment
766
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010002523
PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN
69-20 JUNO ST, FOREST HILLS, NY 11375 · (718) 268-2775 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL766 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
17.7:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
194 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 66 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 121 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
82.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
87.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 87.0% |
| 2023-24 | 75.0% | 87.0% |
% 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
81.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN
PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN's state test result (81.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN this school | 766 | 25.3% | 81.2% |
| PS/IS 78 LONG ISLAND CITY | 799 | 23.2% | 80.2% |
| MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST MEADOW | 838 | 30.5% | 85.0% |
| PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND ROOSEVELT ISLAND | 689 | 29.5% | 69.3% |
| BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL EAST MEADOW | 797 | 17.7% | 82.8% |
| JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL FLORAL PARK | 674 | 24.9% | 75.0% |
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 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.2% | #150 of 2,335 | #23 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #191 of 2,342 ▼ 37 | #25 of 219 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #197 of 2,343 ▼ 33 | #30 of 220 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 766 | #185 of 2,585 | #49 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #2,248 of 2,338 | #214 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.3% | #91 of 2,388 | #11 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.3% | #2,089 of 2,534 | #226 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.2% | #893 of 1,757 | #113 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
766
-130 (-15%) vs 2020
+10% since 2010-11, when it was 695
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 766 | 43.3 | 17.7:1 | 25% (194) |
| 2023-24 | 805 | 43 | 18.7:1 | 23% (184) |
| 2022-23 | 830 | 44 | 18.9:1 | 24% (196) |
| 2020-21 | 896 | 54 | 16.6:1 | 20% (179) |
| 2017-18 | 893 | 53 | 16.8:1 | 22% (194) |
| 2015-16 | 874 | 49 | 17.8:1 | 22% (189) |
| 2010-11 | 695 | 52 | 13.4:1 | 29% (205) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN.
About PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN
PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN is an elementary school located in FOREST HILLS, New York, in Queens County. Enrollment totals 766 students across pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 73% larger than the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 has 50 schools and 36,340 students, and PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN is one of those schools.
About 34% of students at PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN are Asian, the largest single group. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% White, 23% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 3% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 73, compared with 70 nationally.
PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN lists 43.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 17.7 students per teacher. The school's 17.7:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 25% of the student body. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 52 points.
PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 93% of New York public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN, the prediction is 65.7% and the result is 81.2%.
The school is in Queens County, where median household income comes to about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Queens County counts 392 public schools with about 268,205 students.
PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS is the nearest public school to PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN, about 0.5 miles away. PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 81.2% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 8 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 766, from 896 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 16.6:1 to 17.7:1 over the same years.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Other schools in FOREST HILLS
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- JHS 190 RUSSELL SAGEMiddle · 935 students
- METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOLHigh · 837 students
- PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAYElementary · 749 students
- PS 220 EDWARD MANDELElementary · 616 students
Nearby schools
- PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS0.5 mi · 605
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,068
- METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL0.5 mi · 837
- PS 2330.5 mi · 514
- JHS 190 RUSSELL SAGE0.6 mi · 935
- PS 174 WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT0.6 mi · 545
Frequently asked questions
About PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSENHow many students attend PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN?
PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN enrolls approximately 766 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN is approximately 17.7:1 (43 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN?
PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN reports a student body of 30% White, 23% Hispanic, 3% Black, 34% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN?
PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.