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Enrollment
637
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009902646
PS 188 KINGSBURY
218-12 HARTLAND AVE, FLUSHING, NY 11364 · (929) 600-5683 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL637 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% 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
15.2:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
248 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 | 35 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 116 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
48%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
89.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
90.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.0% | 90.0% |
| 2023-24 | 82.0% | 89.0% |
% 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
86.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% 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 25 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 188 KINGSBURY
PS 188 KINGSBURY's state test result (86.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 188 KINGSBURY this school | 637 | 38.9% | 86.0% |
| PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) LITTLE NECK | 504 | 42.9% | 77.6% |
| JAMES J AMBROSE SCHOOL (THE) FLORAL PARK | 659 | 50.7% | 75.5% |
| PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS BAYSIDE | 818 | 47.1% | 87.2% |
| SEARINGTOWN SCHOOL ALBERTSON | 549 | 24.6% | 82.2% |
| CENTER STREET SCHOOL WILLISTON PARK | 482 | 25.9% | 82.3% |
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 188 KINGSBURY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #83 of 2,335 | #11 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #132 of 2,342 ▼ 16 | #19 of 219 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #92 of 2,343 ▼ 7 | #14 of 220 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 637 | #380 of 2,585 | #84 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #2,063 of 2,338 | #184 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.9% | #1,332 of 2,388 | #163 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.9% | #1,722 of 2,534 | #217 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #966 of 1,757 | #121 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
637
-88 (-12%) vs 2020
+16% since 2010-11, when it was 551
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 637 | 42 | 15.2:1 | 39% (248) |
| 2023-24 | 665 | 41 | 16.2:1 | 34% (226) |
| 2022-23 | 676 | 37.7 | 17.9:1 | 34% (228) |
| 2020-21 | 725 | 48 | 15.1:1 | 26% (186) |
| 2017-18 | 731 | 42 | 17.4:1 | 26% (189) |
| 2015-16 | 727 | 39 | 18.6:1 | 24% (171) |
| 2010-11 | 551 | 31 | 17.8:1 | 20% (111) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 188 KINGSBURY.
About PS 188 KINGSBURY
PS 188 KINGSBURY is an elementary school in FLUSHING, New York, according to federal school records. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 637 students. The school's enrollment is 44% larger than the 443 average for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 is the local district for PS 188 KINGSBURY. It runs 34 schools with 29,203 students.
By race and ethnicity, PS 188 KINGSBURY is 69% Asian. The school is also 19% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. That is higher than the 26% Asian share among all Queens County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 188 KINGSBURY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 48%.
Teachers at the school number 42 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.2:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. The school's lunch program data list 39% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 77% average for public schools in Queens County, the school's rate is lower.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 188 KINGSBURY receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
After accounting for student poverty, PS 188 KINGSBURY is in the top 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 86.0% is 25.3 points above the 60.7% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Among Queens County residents, median household income is about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 392 public schools in Queens County, with a combined enrollment of about 268,205.
The school nearest to PS 188 KINGSBURY is PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. PS 188 KINGSBURY places 1st of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 725 in 2020-21 and 637 in 2024-25, a 12% decrease.
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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 FLUSHING
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
Nearby schools
- PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL0.2 mi · 225
- PS 46 ALLEY POND0.7 mi · 520
- BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 601
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,131
- PS 213 CARL ULLMAN SCHOOL (THE)0.9 mi · 374
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE0.9 mi · 1,104
Frequently asked questions
About PS 188 KINGSBURYWhat is the total enrollment at PS 188 KINGSBURY?
PS 188 KINGSBURY enrolls approximately 637 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 188 KINGSBURY an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 188 KINGSBURY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 188 KINGSBURY?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at PS 188 KINGSBURY.
What is the student diversity at PS 188 KINGSBURY?
Student demographics at PS 188 KINGSBURY are roughly 19% White, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, 69% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is PS 188 KINGSBURY public or private?
PS 188 KINGSBURY is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26.
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