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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS this year?
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Enrollment
757
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202586
PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS
159-01 59TH AVE, FLUSHING, NY 11365 · (718) 353-2514 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL757 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
14.3:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
642 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 | 51 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 110 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 115 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 115 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 134 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 123 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (110) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (123).
Student demographics
34%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
68.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
85.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 62.0% | 81.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 28 points, placing it in New York's top 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 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS
PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS's state test result (71.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS this school | 757 | 84.8% | 71.7% |
| PS 131 ABIGAIL ADAMS JAMAICA | 754 | 88.2% | 64.9% |
| SCHOOL FOR FUTURE LEADERS (THE) BROOKLYN | 535 | 89.7% | 72.5% |
| PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON FLUSHING | 1,197 | 84.7% | 71.4% |
| PS 160 WILLIAM T SAMPSON BROOKLYN | 965 | 97.0% | 69.6% |
| PS 20 JOHN BOWNE FLUSHING | 995 | 87.2% | 55.0% |
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 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.7% | #343 of 2,335 | #45 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #231 of 2,342 ▲ 45 | #30 of 219 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #598 of 2,343 ▼ 138 | #82 of 220 ▼ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 757 | #194 of 2,585 | #53 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,922 of 2,338 | #155 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.2% | #1,779 of 2,388 | #196 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.8% | #617 of 2,534 | #76 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.4% | #1,445 of 1,757 | #151 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
757
-55 (-7%) vs 2020
+33% since 2010-11, when it was 569
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 18.4:1
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 | 757 | 53 | 14.3:1 | 85% (642) |
| 2023-24 | 754 | 55 | 13.7:1 | 84% (635) |
| 2022-23 | 780 | 46.7 | 16.7:1 | 82% (643) |
| 2020-21 | 812 | 44 | 18.4:1 | 84% (679) |
| 2017-18 | 800 | 55 | 14.6:1 | 81% (646) |
| 2015-16 | 637 | 39 | 16.3:1 | 80% (509) |
| 2010-11 | 569 | 36 | 15.8:1 | 79% (448) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS.
About PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS
PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS is a public elementary school in FLUSHING, New York. It enrolls 757 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 71% larger than the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, which runs PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS, has 46 schools and 33,704 students.
The largest group at PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS is Asian students, at 80%. Other groups make up 16% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 26% of Queens County residents are Asian. The diversity index for PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS is 34%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.3:1. The school has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 14.3:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Federal data show 85% of students (642) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 77% average among public schools in Queens County.
PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 92% of New York public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS ranks in the top 10% of New York schools. It scores 71.7%; the prediction is 43.8%.
For Queens County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS, Queens County has 392 public schools.
About 0.4 miles separate PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS from the closest public school, PS 201 DISCOVERY SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND RESEARCH (THE). A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 69.2% on proficiency, and PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS is above that at 71.7%.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 757, compared with 812 in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 18.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.3:1.
The discussion board for PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 201 DISCOVERY SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND RESEARCH (THE)0.4 mi · 304
- QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE)0.7 mi · 536
- PS/MS 200 MAGNET SCHOOL-GLOBAL STUDI0.7 mi · 489
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,342
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN0.8 mi · 1,516
- FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 4,573
Frequently asked questions
About PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTSHow many students attend PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS?
PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS enrolls approximately 757 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS serve?
PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS.
How diverse is PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS?
PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS reports a student body of 1% White, 16% Hispanic, 1% Black, 80% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS?
PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.