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Enrollment
561
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29·NCES 360010102617
PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS
120-45 235TH ST, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, NY 11411 · (718) 525-4057 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL561 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
12.9:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
428 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 55 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
79.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 70.0% |
% 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
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% 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 24 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 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS
PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS this school | 561 | 76.3% | 71.3% |
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING BRONX | 532 | 76.9% | 59.0% |
| GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE) ROSEDALE | 561 | 79.0% | 48.9% |
| EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 624 | 79.0% | 55.8% |
| PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 666 | 81.2% | 55.8% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLATBUSH BROOKLYN | 598 | 81.9% | 84.6% |
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 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #353 of 2,335 | #47 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #321 of 2,342 ▲ 239 | #46 of 219 ▲ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #264 of 2,343 ▲ 7 | #39 of 220 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 561 | #594 of 2,585 | #111 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #1,607 of 2,338 | #96 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.6% | #1,939 of 2,388 | #203 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.3% | #865 of 2,534 | #129 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.4% | #566 of 1,757 | #76 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
561
-103 (-16%) vs 2020
-28% since 2010-11, when it was 780
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 561 | 43.4 | 12.9:1 | 76% (428) |
| 2023-24 | 567 | 32.4 | 17.5:1 | 53% (298) |
| 2022-23 | 619 | 32 | 19.3:1 | 56% (344) |
| 2020-21 | 664 | 41 | 16.2:1 | 62% (414) |
| 2017-18 | 714 | 42 | 17.0:1 | 76% (545) |
| 2015-16 | 733 | 42 | 17.4:1 | 75% (551) |
| 2010-11 | 780 | 45 | 17.3:1 | 94% (730) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS.
About PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS
PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS is a medium-sized elementary school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, located in CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, New York. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 561 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 counts 46 schools and 21,817 students, including PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS.
PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS's enrollment is 85% Black. The next largest groups are 7% Hispanic and 4% Asian. The school's Black share is 67 points above the 17% share among Queens County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 28% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 43.4 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 12.9:1. That is close to the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS reports 76% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Queens County average 77%.
PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS is graded A by allk12, scoring above 90% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS beats its 46.9% prediction with 71.3%, a top-10% result in New York.
Queens County has these Census figures: the median household income is $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. In all, Queens County has 392 public schools and roughly 268,205 students.
Nearby, ALDEN TERRACE SCHOOL is about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS places 1st out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Locale data from NCES put PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Enrollment has fallen by 103 students since 2020-21, to 561. Students per teacher fell from 16.2 in 2020-21 to 12.9 in 2024-25.
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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
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Nearby schools
- ALDEN TERRACE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 405
- GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)0.8 mi · 561
- PS 38 ROSEDALE1.0 mi · 223
- ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,492
- PS/MS 147 RONALD MCNAIR1.0 mi · 427
- PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE1.1 mi · 283
Frequently asked questions
About PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTSHow large is PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS?
PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS enrolls approximately 561 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS serve?
PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS have?
PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS?
Student demographics at PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS are roughly 1% White, 7% Hispanic, 85% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS in?
PS 176 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29.
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