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What's one thing PS 150 gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
657
Elementary
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010205287
PS 150
40-01 43RD AVE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11104 · (718) 784-2252 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL657 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% 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.
- 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
14.0:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
386 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 35 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 125 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (125).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
76.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 75.0% |
% 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
71.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 150
PS 150's state test result (71.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 150 this school | 657 | 58.8% | 71.1% |
| PS 99 KEW GARDENS KEW GARDENS | 758 | 61.2% | 70.2% |
| OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL ASTORIA | 681 | 61.2% | 65.6% |
| PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN LONG ISLAND CITY | 825 | 62.3% | 69.5% |
| PS 29 BARDWELL STATEN ISLAND | 579 | 56.3% | 63.1% |
| COVERT AVENUE SCHOOL ELMONT | 646 | 55.4% | 70.2% |
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 150 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.1% | #363 of 2,335 | #49 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #524 of 2,342 ▼ 101 | #74 of 219 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #346 of 2,343 ▼ 127 | #46 of 220 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 657 | #348 of 2,585 | #80 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #1,874 of 2,338 | #148 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.4% | #249 of 2,388 | #37 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.8% | #1,187 of 2,534 | #193 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.7% | #121 of 1,757 | #12 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
657
-263 (-29%) vs 2020
-48% since 2010-11, when it was 1,266
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 657 | 46.9 | 14.0:1 | 59% (386) |
| 2023-24 | 699 | 47.8 | 14.6:1 | 61% (428) |
| 2022-23 | 771 | 49.8 | 15.5:1 | 55% (424) |
| 2020-21 | 920 | 58 | 15.9:1 | 63% (579) |
| 2017-18 | 1,090 | 68 | 16.0:1 | 54% (586) |
| 2015-16 | 1,145 | 66 | 17.4:1 | 42% (484) |
| 2010-11 | 1,266 | 88 | 14.4:1 | 84% (1,060) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 150.
About PS 150
PS 150 is a public medium-sized elementary school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York. It enrolled 657 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
PS 150 is one of the 53 schools that make up NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 (35,337 students in total).
The most common group at PS 150 is Hispanic students, at 42%. Other groups include 25% Asian, 24% White, and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 28% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal data list 46.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at PS 150 in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.0:1. That is 1.2 students per teacher above the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 59%. For comparison, public schools in Queens County average 77%.
PS 150 is graded A by allk12, scoring above 89% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, PS 150 would be expected to post about 53.4%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 71.1%.
In the county around the school, Queens County, the median household income is $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 392 public schools in Queens County, enrolling about 268,205 students in all.
Of nearby public schools, CHILDREN'S LAB SCHOOL (THE) is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. PS 150 has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 61.8% proficiency; PS 150 posts 71.1%.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
PS 150's enrollment dropped from 920 in 2020-21 to 657 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.0:1) than in 2020-21 (15.9:1).
The PS 150 community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Other schools in LONG ISLAND CITY
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Other Ps 150 schools
One other US public school is named Ps 150. PS 150 is the largest of the 2.
- PS 150NEW YORK, NY · 287 students
Nearby schools
- CHILDREN'S LAB SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 456
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,924
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,294
- IS 125 THOMAS J MCCANN WOODSIDE0.4 mi · 1,320
- MS 4290.4 mi · 252
- PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD0.4 mi · 505
Frequently asked questions
About PS 150How many students attend PS 150?
PS 150 enrolls approximately 657 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 150 an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 150 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 150 have?
PS 150 employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 150?
At PS 150, the student body is approximately 24% White, 42% Hispanic, 2% Black, 25% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 150?
PS 150 is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.