Enrollment
410
Elementary
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010202606
PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST
14-14 29TH AVE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11102 · (718) 932-0909 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL410 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
9.2:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
371 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 72 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
66%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
47.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
56.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +24.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 24 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
37.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 171 PETER G VAN ALST
PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST's state test result (37.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST this school | 410 | 90.5% | 37.9% |
| PS 151 MARY D CARTER WOODSIDE | 334 | 90.4% | 49.7% |
| PS 76 WILLIAM HALLET LONG ISLAND CITY | 397 | 89.9% | 42.3% |
| PORT RICHMOND SCHOOL FOR VISIONARY LEARNING STATEN ISLAND | 377 | 82.2% | 34.4% |
| PS 112 DUTCH KILLS LONG ISLAND CITY | 521 | 89.3% | 35.2% |
| PS 182 BRONX | 399 | 91.5% | 38.9% |
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 171 PETER G VAN ALST ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.9% | #1,719 of 2,335 | #191 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,219 of 2,342 ▲ 710 | #154 of 219 ▲ 47 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,456 of 2,343 ▲ 153 | #178 of 220 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #1,301 of 2,585 | #179 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.2:1 | #213 of 2,338 | #13 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #426 of 2,388 | #63 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.5% | #391 of 2,534 | #33 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #720 of 1,757 | #99 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
410
+13 (+3%) vs 2020
-34% since 2010-11, when it was 621
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 410 | 44.5 | 9.2:1 | 90% (371) |
| 2023-24 | 472 | 39.4 | 12.0:1 | 92% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 394 | 33.3 | 11.8:1 | 90% (356) |
| 2020-21 | 397 | 33 | 12.0:1 | 92% (367) |
| 2017-18 | 498 | 40 | 12.4:1 | 92% (460) |
| 2015-16 | 521 | 42 | 12.4:1 | 95% (495) |
| 2010-11 | 621 | 52 | 11.9:1 | 84% (524) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST.
About PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST
PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST is a medium-sized elementary school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. The latest federal count shows 410 students in pre-K through 5.
PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST is one of 53 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, which enrolls 35,337 students in total.
At 52%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST combined. Smaller groups are 20% Black, 14% White, and 12% Asian. County-wide, 28% of Queens County residents are Hispanic. By the diversity index, PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST comes in at 66%.
Teachers at PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST total 44.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 9.2:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 90%. The average for public schools in Queens County is 77%.
The allk12 Grade for PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST is C+. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 36% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST is 3.8 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Queens County census figures show that median household income is about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST is among the 392 public schools in Queens County.
Of nearby public schools, YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP SCHOOL - ASTORIA is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 410, 3% above the 397 of 2020-21. The number of students per teacher fell from 12.0 to 9.2 over 4 years.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Other schools in LONG ISLAND CITY
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Nearby schools
- YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP SCHOOL - ASTORIA0.2 mi · 579
- ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS0.3 mi · 382
- 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)0.4 mi · 525
- PS 17 HENRY DAVID THOREAU0.4 mi · 610
- PS 2340.4 mi · 465
- ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS0.4 mi · 50
Frequently asked questions
About PS 171 PETER G VAN ALSTHow many students attend PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST?
PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST enrolls approximately 410 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST serve?
PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST is approximately 9.2:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST?
At PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST, the student body is approximately 14% White, 52% Hispanic, 20% Black, 12% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST in?
PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.