PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH

PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH is a K-5 school of high-enrollment scale in JAMAICA, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, instructing 810 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 83% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH is one of 50 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, a district that serves 36,340 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder reads as 21% Asian, 12% Black, 3% Native American. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH shows 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate median household income runs about $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH is one.

YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL-QUEENS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.0%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH's enrollment has climbed 7% since 2018, when it stood at 759 (now 810). Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 27% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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