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Enrollment
764
Elementary
DISTRICT 789 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009802551
PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY
60-02 60TH LN, MASPETH, NY 11378 · (718) 821-7850 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL764 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
12.3:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
532 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 84 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 99 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 123 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (99) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (123).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
60.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
60.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
55.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY
PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY's state test result (55.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY this school | 764 | 69.6% | 55.0% |
| PS 70 LONG ISLAND CITY | 770 | 74.9% | 53.8% |
| PS 232 LINDENWOOD HOWARD BEACH | 831 | 67.6% | 48.4% |
| PS 17 HENRY DAVID THOREAU LONG ISLAND CITY | 610 | 65.4% | 57.4% |
| PS 2 ALFRED ZIMBERG EAST ELMHURST | 583 | 70.3% | 56.5% |
| PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN LONG ISLAND CITY | 825 | 62.3% | 69.5% |
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 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #960 of 2,335 | #121 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #1,059 of 2,342 ▼ 67 | #137 of 219 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #927 of 2,343 ▼ 109 | #122 of 220 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 764 | #186 of 2,585 | #50 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #1,392 of 2,338 | #73 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.0% | #612 of 2,388 | #94 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.6% | #989 of 2,534 | #163 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.9% | #160 of 1,757 | #16 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
764
-180 (-19%) vs 2020
-46% since 2010-11, when it was 1,412
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 764 | 62 | 12.3:1 | 70% (532) |
| 2023-24 | 822 | 67.2 | 12.2:1 | 68% (555) |
| 2022-23 | 847 | 60.6 | 14.0:1 | 68% (576) |
| 2020-21 | 944 | 78 | 12.1:1 | 72% (681) |
| 2017-18 | 1,211 | 73 | 16.6:1 | 71% (858) |
| 2015-16 | 1,336 | 79 | 16.9:1 | 69% (927) |
| 2010-11 | 1,412 | 90 | 15.7:1 | 69% (981) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY.
About PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY
PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY is an elementary school with a street address in MASPETH, New York. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 764 students. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 72% higher.
Enrollment across the 57 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 totals 48,008 students.
About 46% of students at PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY are Hispanic, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 38% White and 13% Asian. Queens County's residents are about 28% Hispanic, 18 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 62% means there is a 62% chance two randomly chosen students at PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY are from different groups.
The school's 62 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. At PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY, 70% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY outscored 65%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
In New York, PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 55.0% actual against a predicted 49.4%.
In the surrounding county, Queens County, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Queens County has 392 public schools with about 268,205 students, including PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY.
ACE ACADEMY FOR SCHOLARS AT THE GERALDINE FERRARO CAMPUS is the nearest public school to PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY, about 0.3 miles away. PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY comes in 3rd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school shrank from 944 students in 2020-21 to 764 in 2024-25.
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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 #24
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCIMiddle · 2,131 students
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,581 students
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTETElementary · 1,506 students
Other schools in MASPETH
- IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,581 students
- PS 58 SCHOOL OF HEROES (THE)Elementary · 750 students
- PS 9Combined · 622 students
Nearby schools
- ACE ACADEMY FOR SCHOLARS AT THE GERALDINE FERRARO CAMPUS0.3 mi · 573
- PS 71 FOREST0.3 mi · 468
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,711
- PS 90.5 mi · 622
- IS 93 RIDGEWOOD0.7 mi · 954
- LEARNERS AND LEADERS0.9 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARYHow many students attend PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY?
PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 764 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 12.3:1 students per teacher at PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY.
How diverse is PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY?
PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 38% White, 46% Hispanic, 1% Black, 13% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY public or private?
PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.