PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS

PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS is one of the sprawling primary schools in FLUSHING, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, with 757 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS sits 71% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 46 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 (33,704 students total), PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS records that the largest single group is Asian, at 80% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS logs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS higher than the state norm the norm. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 43.8%; PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS posts 71.7%, +27.9 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Queens County put the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 201 DISCOVERY SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND RESEARCH (THE), roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 69.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 800 students in 2018 compared to 757 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.