PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN

PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN is one of the well-populated elementary-level communitys in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, with 825 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 86% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, which oversees 53 schools and 35,337 students, PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN is one campus in the system.

Demographically, PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 27% White, 18% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 62% of students at PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Queens County's rate of about 77%.

With demographic context factored in, PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of +17.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Queens County put the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN is one campus in the mix.

FRANK SINATRA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 58.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,076 (now 825). The Asian share of enrollment fell from 26% to 18% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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