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How has PS 20 JOHN BOWNE changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
995
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202105
PS 20 JOHN BOWNE
142-30 BARCLAY AVE, FLUSHING, NY 11355 · (718) 359-0321 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL995 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
13.8:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
868 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 73 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 152 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 134 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 165 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 153 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 158 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 159 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (152) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (159).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
54.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
68.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 68.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 62.0% |
% 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
55.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% 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 20 JOHN BOWNE
PS 20 JOHN BOWNE's state test result (55.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 20 JOHN BOWNE this school | 995 | 87.2% | 55.0% |
| PS 176 OVINGTON BROOKLYN | 1,037 | 85.2% | 69.7% |
| PS 120 FLUSHING | 748 | 90.1% | 53.2% |
| PS 214 MICHAEL FRIEDSAM BROOKLYN | 728 | 88.9% | 42.5% |
| PS 102 BAYVIEW ELMHURST | 1,107 | 79.0% | 71.7% |
| PS 7 LOUIS F SIMEONE ELMHURST | 1,187 | 84.3% | 74.1% |
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 20 JOHN BOWNE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #961 of 2,335 | #122 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #769 of 2,342 ▲ 72 | #107 of 219 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,176 of 2,343 ▼ 65 | #153 of 220 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 995 | #47 of 2,585 | #21 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,826 of 2,338 | #141 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.3% | #1,270 of 2,388 | #159 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.2% | #527 of 2,534 | #56 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.1% | #471 of 1,757 | #64 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
995
-168 (-14%) vs 2020
-32% since 2010-11, when it was 1,453
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 995 | 72.2 | 13.8:1 | 87% (868) |
| 2023-24 | 1,016 | 65.1 | 15.6:1 | 89% (904) |
| 2022-23 | 1,033 | 70.4 | 14.7:1 | 87% (901) |
| 2020-21 | 1,163 | 73 | 15.9:1 | 91% (1,061) |
| 2017-18 | 1,311 | 85 | 15.4:1 | 93% (1,225) |
| 2015-16 | 1,384 | 88 | 15.7:1 | 94% (1,297) |
| 2010-11 | 1,453 | 93 | 15.6:1 | 92% (1,341) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 20 JOHN BOWNE.
About PS 20 JOHN BOWNE
PS 20 JOHN BOWNE is an elementary school in FLUSHING, New York, reachable at (718) 359-0321. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 995 students. It has 125% more students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 is made up of 46 schools with 33,704 students in all.
More than half of the students at PS 20 JOHN BOWNE are Asian (67%). The remaining shares are 24% Hispanic, 3% White, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the Asian share of Queens County's population at about 26%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 20 JOHN BOWNE scores 49%.
The school had 72.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 13.8:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. The school reported 87% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 10 points.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 20 JOHN BOWNE lands at B+, ahead of 69% of New York public elementary schools.
In New York, PS 20 JOHN BOWNE is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 55.0% actual against a predicted 42.9%.
Queens County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, PS 20 JOHN BOWNE among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, ACTIVE LEARNING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE), is about 0.3 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, PS 20 JOHN BOWNE places 6th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
PS 20 JOHN BOWNE is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
The school's enrollment fell 14% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.8:1) than in 2020-21 (15.9:1).
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at PS 20 JOHN BOWNE. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 #25
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 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
- ACTIVE LEARNING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 458
- JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD0.3 mi · 603
- FLUSHING INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 390
- VERITAS ACADEMY0.5 mi · 653
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES0.5 mi · 441
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,650
Frequently asked questions
About PS 20 JOHN BOWNEWhat is the total enrollment at PS 20 JOHN BOWNE?
PS 20 JOHN BOWNE enrolls approximately 995 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 20 JOHN BOWNE serve?
PS 20 JOHN BOWNE serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 20 JOHN BOWNE?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at PS 20 JOHN BOWNE.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 20 JOHN BOWNE?
At PS 20 JOHN BOWNE, the student body is approximately 3% White, 24% Hispanic, 3% Black, 67% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 20 JOHN BOWNE in?
PS 20 JOHN BOWNE is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.