PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY

PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY is a K-5 school of large scale in MASPETH, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, caters to 764 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY sits 72% bigger than that benchmark.

PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY is one of 57 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, a district that enrolls 48,008 students overall.

Demographically, PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 38% White, 13% Asian. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY shows 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Queens County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

ACE ACADEMY FOR SCHOLARS AT THE GERALDINE FERRARO CAMPUS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 50.3%.

PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 37%: 1,211 students in 2018 compared to 764 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 43% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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