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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
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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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.
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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
505
-370 (-42%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 15.1:1
% White
9%
was 7%
% Hispanic
66%
was 56%
% Black
2%
was 1%
% Asian
22%
was 34%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD
As an average-sized K-5 school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD hosts 505 students from grades K through 5, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 runs 57 schools in total, collectively educating 48,008 students. PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder is composed of 22% Asian, 9% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.5%; this one delivers 40.1%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Queens County) logs that median household income runs about $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).
Nearest neighbor: QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Over the past 7-year window. PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD's enrollment has edged down 42% since 2018, when it stood at 875 (now 505). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 34% to 22%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.
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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 #24
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCIMiddle · 2,131 students
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,581 students
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTETElementary · 1,506 students
Other schools in LONG ISLAND CITY
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- 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.