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What's the one class at PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY every student should take?
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Enrollment
749
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010002667
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY
71-25 113TH ST, FOREST HILLS, NY 11375 · (718) 263-9770 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL749 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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.
- A+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
15.3:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
167 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 | 18 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 118 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 125 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 117 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 137 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (118) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (137).
Student demographics
69%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
97.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
98.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 97 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 98 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 | 97.0% | 98.0% |
| 2023-24 | 90.0% | 97.0% |
% 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
94.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+28.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 95% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 67% 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 28 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 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY's state test result (94.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY this school | 749 | 22.3% | 94.9% |
| ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH THE ARTS (THE) FOREST HILLS | 573 | 23.7% | 91.4% |
| PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN FOREST HILLS | 766 | 25.3% | 81.2% |
| MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST MEADOW | 838 | 30.5% | 85.0% |
| STRATFORD ROAD SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 621 | 16.9% | 79.9% |
| PARKWAY SCHOOL EAST MEADOW | 570 | 27.7% | 75.2% |
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 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 94.9% | #13 of 2,335 | #2 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 98.0% | #34 of 2,342 ▲ 6 | #4 of 219 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 97.0% | #15 of 2,343 ▲ 10 | #2 of 220 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 749 | #206 of 2,585 | #57 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #2,075 of 2,338 | #187 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.2% | #257 of 2,388 | #39 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.3% | #2,172 of 2,534 | #229 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #441 of 1,757 | #62 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
749
-199 (-21%) vs 2020
+17% since 2010-11, when it was 642
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 749 | 49 | 15.3:1 | 22% (167) |
| 2023-24 | 794 | 48 | 16.5:1 | 23% (184) |
| 2022-23 | 787 | 49.7 | 15.8:1 | 20% (158) |
| 2020-21 | 948 | 56 | 16.9:1 | 24% (230) |
| 2017-18 | 996 | 58 | 17.2:1 | 24% (244) |
| 2015-16 | 905 | 47 | 19.3:1 | 22% (195) |
| 2010-11 | 642 | 36 | 17.8:1 | 26% (169) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY.
About PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY is a large elementary school in FOREST HILLS, New York, (ZIP code 11375). Federal data show 749 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 69% larger than that mark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 has 36,340 students in 50 schools, and PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY, about 43 are Asian, the largest group. Smaller groups are 29% White, 16% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Queens County is roughly 26% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 49 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 15.3:1. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is 2.4 students per teacher. On the income side, 22% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 55 points below the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 98% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY outperforms its prediction by 28.1 points. The model expects 66.8% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New York; the school's rate is 94.9%.
The county, Queens County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 392, with about 268,205 students.
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY is about 0.4 miles from ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH THE ARTS (THE), its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY ranks 1st of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 94.9% against a local average of 71.2%.
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
The school's student count fell 21% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Students per teacher dropped from 16.9 in 2020-21 to 15.3 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 FOREST HILLS
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- JHS 190 RUSSELL SAGEMiddle · 935 students
- METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOLHigh · 837 students
- PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSENElementary · 766 students
- PS 220 EDWARD MANDELElementary · 616 students
Nearby schools
- ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH THE ARTS (THE)0.4 mi · 573
- PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS0.6 mi · 605
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 3,394
- JHS 190 RUSSELL SAGE0.7 mi · 935
- PS 164 QUEENS VALLEY0.8 mi · 527
- PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN0.9 mi · 766
Frequently asked questions
About PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAYHow large is PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY?
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY enrolls approximately 749 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY serve?
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY have?
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY?
Student demographics at PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY are roughly 29% White, 16% Hispanic, 1% Black, 43% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY public or private?
PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.