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Enrollment
542
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202555
PS 154
75-02 162ND ST, FLUSHING, NY 11366 · (718) 591-1500 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL542 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New York public elementary schools
- B+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
13.6:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
418 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 | 32 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
70%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
71.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +18.0pp since 2023
Math
59.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 67.0% |
% 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
60.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 154
PS 154's state test result (60.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 154 this school | 542 | 77.1% | 60.3% |
| PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL FOREST HILLS | 616 | 81.2% | 45.5% |
| ROSCOE CONKLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 503 | 79.3% | 29.3% |
| PS/IS 295 QUEENS VILLAGE | 562 | 74.9% | 64.2% |
| WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) FLUSHING | 504 | 70.8% | 63.6% |
| PS 165 EDITH K BERGTRAUM FLUSHING | 606 | 75.6% | 64.5% |
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 154 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #735 of 2,335 | #101 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #1,097 of 2,342 ▼ 439 | #144 of 219 ▼ 54 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #483 of 2,343 ▲ 261 | #67 of 220 ▲ 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 542 | #658 of 2,585 | #122 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #1,770 of 2,338 | #136 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #237 of 2,388 | #35 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.1% | #850 of 2,534 | #127 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.6% | #631 of 1,757 | #87 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
542
-50 (-8%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 670
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 542 | 40 | 13.6:1 | 77% (418) |
| 2023-24 | 575 | 42.6 | 13.5:1 | 78% (450) |
| 2022-23 | 570 | 38.9 | 14.7:1 | 78% (443) |
| 2020-21 | 592 | 43 | 13.8:1 | 79% (470) |
| 2017-18 | 674 | 48 | 14.0:1 | 82% (553) |
| 2015-16 | 732 | 46 | 15.9:1 | 82% (600) |
| 2010-11 | 670 | 40 | 16.8:1 | 76% (507) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 154.
About PS 154
PS 154 is a public elementary school run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 in FLUSHING, New York. The latest federal count shows 542 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York, enrollment here is 22% higher.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 serves 33,704 students across 46 schools.
PS 154 has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 37%. The remaining students are 37% Asian, 13% White, and 10% Black. Among people living in Queens County, the Hispanic share is about 28%. PS 154's diversity index is 70%, against a US figure of 70%.
At PS 154, 40 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.6:1. That is higher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Roughly 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. That tracks the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
allk12 grades PS 154 an A-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with PS 154's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 46.6%. PS 154 scores 60.3%, 13.7 points above that line.
According to the American Community Survey, in Queens County, the median household income is $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. There are 392 public schools in Queens County, enrolling about 268,205 students in all.
Nearby, PS 255 is about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of PS 154, there are at least 8 other public schools. PS 154 is 3rd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show an 8% enrollment decrease, from 592 in 2020-21 to 542 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 #25
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
Other schools in FLUSHING
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
Nearby schools
- PS 2550.2 mi · 552
- QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)0.2 mi · 593
- IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)0.2 mi · 254
- ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 587
- PS/MS 200 MAGNET SCHOOL-GLOBAL STUDI0.3 mi · 489
- QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 679
Frequently asked questions
About PS 154How large is PS 154?
PS 154 enrolls approximately 542 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 154 an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 154 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 154 have?
PS 154 employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 154?
Student demographics at PS 154 are roughly 13% White, 37% Hispanic, 10% Black, 37% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 154 in?
PS 154 is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.