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Enrollment
425
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009902099
PS 18 WINCHESTER
86-35 235TH COURT, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11427 · (718) 464-4167 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL425 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% 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
14.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
261 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 44 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 17% larger than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
76.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 72.0% |
% 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
68.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 18 WINCHESTER
PS 18 WINCHESTER's state test result (68.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 18 WINCHESTER this school | 425 | 61.4% | 68.6% |
| PS 213 CARL ULLMAN SCHOOL (THE) BAYSIDE | 374 | 66.6% | 62.9% |
| QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE) FLUSHING | 536 | 55.6% | 81.7% |
| PS 46 ALLEY POND BAYSIDE | 520 | 54.2% | 71.3% |
| PS 159 BAYSIDE | 504 | 61.3% | 73.1% |
| PS 184 FLUSHING MANOR WHITESTONE | 462 | 58.9% | 71.1% |
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 18 WINCHESTER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.6% | #440 of 2,335 | #56 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #476 of 2,342 ▲ 28 | #68 of 219 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #393 of 2,343 ▼ 5 | #48 of 220 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 425 | #1,232 of 2,585 | #173 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,928 of 2,338 | #156 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.0% | #608 of 2,388 | #93 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.4% | #1,132 of 2,534 | #187 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.5% | #255 of 1,757 | #31 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
425
-25 (-6%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 502
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 425 | 29.7 | 14.3:1 | 61% (261) |
| 2023-24 | 423 | 30 | 14.1:1 | 63% (266) |
| 2022-23 | 437 | 30 | 14.6:1 | 62% (270) |
| 2020-21 | 450 | 38 | 11.8:1 | 62% (277) |
| 2017-18 | 620 | 42 | 14.8:1 | 59% (365) |
| 2015-16 | 655 | 42 | 15.6:1 | 59% (389) |
| 2010-11 | 502 | 28 | 17.9:1 | 55% (278) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 18 WINCHESTER.
About PS 18 WINCHESTER
PS 18 WINCHESTER is an elementary school located in QUEENS VILLAGE, New York, in Queens County. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 425 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 has 34 schools and 29,203 students, and PS 18 WINCHESTER is one of those schools.
The largest group at PS 18 WINCHESTER is Asian students, at 56%. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% White, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Queens County residents are about 26% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 18 WINCHESTER scores 62%.
PS 18 WINCHESTER has 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.3:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 61% at PS 18 WINCHESTER. That rate is below the 77% average among public schools in Queens County.
PS 18 WINCHESTER holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 85% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 18 WINCHESTER scores 68.6% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 52.4%.
In Queens County, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Queens County, 392 public schools serve about 268,205 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK, is the closest to PS 18 WINCHESTER. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of PS 18 WINCHESTER. Among its closest neighbors with test data, PS 18 WINCHESTER is 2nd of 9 on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around PS 18 WINCHESTER as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased 6% over 4 years, reaching 425 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 11.8:1 to 14.3:1.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26
- FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,573 students
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,004 students
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,866 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,131 students
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMiddle · 1,104 students
Other schools in QUEENS VILLAGE
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,131 students
- JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 894 students
- PS 33 EDWARD M FUNKElementary · 735 students
- BELLAIRE SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 699 students
- BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 601 students
- PS/IS 295Elementary · 562 students
Nearby schools
- PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK0.4 mi · 735
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,131
- BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 601
- PS 133 THE BELLEROSE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE0.8 mi · 596
- PS/IS 2950.8 mi · 562
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES0.9 mi · 840
Frequently asked questions
About PS 18 WINCHESTERHow large is PS 18 WINCHESTER?
PS 18 WINCHESTER enrolls approximately 425 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 18 WINCHESTER serve?
PS 18 WINCHESTER serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 18 WINCHESTER?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at PS 18 WINCHESTER.
How diverse is PS 18 WINCHESTER?
PS 18 WINCHESTER reports a student body of 8% White, 21% Hispanic, 11% Black, 56% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is PS 18 WINCHESTER public or private?
PS 18 WINCHESTER is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.