PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP

PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in JAMAICA, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28. Current enrollment sits at 661 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% above the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 36,340 students. PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP lists that 34% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 30% Black, 22% Asian, 9% Native American, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Queens County's rate of about 77%.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.2%; this one delivers 57.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Queens County put median household earnings sit near $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP is one.

Nearest neighbor: QUEENS TRANSITION CENTER, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP. On composite proficiency, PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP has held roughly steady, going from 654 students in 2018 to 661 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 48% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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