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If you could change one rule at PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH, what would it be?
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Enrollment
810
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010004611
PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH
153-27 88TH AVE, JAMAICA, NY 11432 · (718) 298-7700 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL810 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
12.3:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
764 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 | 49 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 131 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 130 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 126 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 129 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 125 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (131) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (118).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 27.0% |
% 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
32.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 182 SAMANTHA SMITH
PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH's state test result (32.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH this school | 810 | 94.3% | 32.6% |
| PS 47 JOHN RANDOLPH BRONX | 789 | 95.7% | 28.5% |
| PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JAMAICA | 904 | 92.0% | 45.4% |
| PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS BRONX | 617 | 90.1% | 39.7% |
| PS 29 COLLEGE POINT | 682 | 90.5% | 44.9% |
| PS 94 KINGS COLLEGE SCHOOL BRONX | 748 | 95.9% | 19.4% |
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 182 SAMANTHA SMITH ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #1,932 of 2,335 | #203 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,045 of 2,342 ▲ 51 | #206 of 219 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,782 of 2,343 ▼ 354 | #194 of 220 ▼ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 810 | #138 of 2,585 | #39 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #1,405 of 2,338 | #75 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.2% | #866 of 2,388 | #118 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.3% | #230 of 2,534 | #14 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.7% | #353 of 606 | #37 of 51 |
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
810
+177 (+28%) vs 2020
-8% since 2010-11, when it was 881
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 810 | 65.6 | 12.3:1 | 94% (764) |
| 2023-24 | 740 | 60.3 | 12.3:1 | 93% (688) |
| 2022-23 | 638 | 65 | 9.8:1 | 90% (572) |
| 2020-21 | 633 | 52 | 12.2:1 | 93% (590) |
| 2017-18 | 759 | 53 | 14.3:1 | 97% (734) |
| 2015-16 | 901 | 60 | 15.0:1 | 95% (853) |
| 2010-11 | 881 | 57 | 15.5:1 | 95% (841) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH.
About PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH
PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH is a public elementary school in JAMAICA, New York. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 810 students. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 83% larger than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 enrolls 36,340 students, and its 50 schools include PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH.
PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH is 61% Hispanic by enrollment. Other reported shares: 21% Asian, 12% Black, and 3% Native American. That compares with about 28% Hispanic among all Queens County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 57% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH total 65.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.3:1. That matches the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York fairly closely. The school counts 764 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 94%. Compared with the 77% average for public schools in Queens County, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 40.3%. PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH scores 32.6%, 7.7 points below that line.
According to the American Community Survey, in Queens County, the median household income is $86,136, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. There are 392 public schools in Queens County, enrolling about 268,205 students in all.
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL-QUEENS is the public school closest to PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH, about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 56.0% on proficiency, and PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH is below that at 32.6%.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
Enrollment grew 28% from its 2020-21 level of 633.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Other schools in JAMAICA
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL IIElementary · 810 students
Nearby schools
- YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL-QUEENS0.1 mi · 544
- PS 860.2 mi · 689
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 2,298
- NEW DAWN CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL II0.2 mi · 375
- QUEENS SATELLITE HIGH SCHOOL FOR OPPORTUNITY0.2 mi · 187
- QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)0.3 mi · 590
Frequently asked questions
About PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITHHow many students attend PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH?
PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH enrolls approximately 810 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH is approximately 12.3:1 (66 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH?
At PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH, the student body is approximately 1% White, 61% Hispanic, 12% Black, 21% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH in?
PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.