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Which teacher or staff member at PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
505
Elementary
DISTRICT 789 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009802678
PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD
39-20 48TH AVE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11104 · (718) 784-3431 · Queens County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL505 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
11.2:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
433 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
40.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD
PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD's state test result (40.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD this school | 505 | 85.7% | 40.1% |
| BEDFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRONX | 439 | 88.4% | 31.1% |
| PS 54 HILLSIDE RICHMOND HILL | 462 | 90.0% | 53.1% |
| PS 90 HORACE MANN RICHMOND HILL | 586 | 91.5% | 45.3% |
| ELM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ELMHURST | 460 | 82.6% | 63.6% |
| PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS BRONX | 617 | 90.1% | 39.7% |
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 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #1,618 of 2,335 | #183 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,431 of 2,342 ▲ 160 | #176 of 219 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,541 of 2,343 ▲ 254 | #183 of 220 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 505 | #796 of 2,585 | #139 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #941 of 2,338 | #42 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.7% | #1,199 of 2,388 | #153 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.7% | #584 of 2,534 | #70 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.3% | #91 of 1,757 | #9 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
505
-107 (-17%) vs 2020
-51% since 2010-11, when it was 1,040
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 505 | 45 | 11.2:1 | 86% (433) |
| 2023-24 | 579 | 45 | 12.9:1 | 85% (495) |
| 2022-23 | 531 | 41 | 12.9:1 | 75% (399) |
| 2020-21 | 612 | 42 | 14.6:1 | 77% (469) |
| 2017-18 | 875 | 58 | 15.1:1 | 69% (600) |
| 2015-16 | 1,047 | 64 | 16.4:1 | 52% (546) |
| 2010-11 | 1,040 | 75 | 13.9:1 | 91% (942) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD.
About PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD
The public elementary school PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD is located in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 505 students.
PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD is one school in a 57-school district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, which enrolls 48,008 students.
By race and ethnicity, PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD is 66% Hispanic. Other reported shares: 22% Asian and 9% White. That compares with about 28% Hispanic among all Queens County residents. PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD has a diversity index of 51%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teacher staffing is 45 full-time equivalents, or about 11.2 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. About 86% of students, or 433, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Queens County is 77%.
PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 39% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD would be expected to post about 43.5%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 40.1%.
In the county around the school, Queens County, median household income is about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. A total of 392 public schools operate in Queens County, serving about 268,205 students.
QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is the public school closest to PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD, about 0.2 miles away. PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD at 8th of 8.
PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 17%, from 612 to 505. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.6:1 in 2020-21, and 11.2:1 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD covering things like school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
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- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Nearby schools
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,294
- CHILDREN'S LAB SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 456
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,924
- RIVERVIEW SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 820
- IS 125 THOMAS J MCCANN WOODSIDE0.4 mi · 1,320
- PS 1500.4 mi · 657
Frequently asked questions
About PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALDHow large is PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD?
PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD enrolls approximately 505 students in grades KG-05.
Is PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD have?
PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD?
At PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD, the student body is approximately 9% White, 66% Hispanic, 2% Black, 22% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD public or private?
PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.