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Does PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
818
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009902687
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS
53-11 SPRNGFLD BLVD, BAYSIDE, NY 11364 · (718) 423-8652 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL818 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% 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
16.7:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
385 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 | 54 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 126 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 128 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 143 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 129 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 130 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (126) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (106).
Student demographics
39%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
90.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
94.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90.0% | 94.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 92.0% |
% 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
87.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+29.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% 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 29 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 203 OAKLAND GARDENS
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS's state test result (87.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS this school | 818 | 47.1% | 87.2% |
| JAMES J AMBROSE SCHOOL (THE) FLORAL PARK | 659 | 50.7% | 75.5% |
| PS 188 KINGSBURY FLUSHING | 637 | 38.9% | 86.0% |
| PS 184 SHUANG WEN NEW YORK | 767 | 56.5% | 87.8% |
| PS 376 FLUSHING | 546 | 59.7% | 82.3% |
| PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO NEW YORK | 526 | 62.2% | 75.1% |
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 203 OAKLAND GARDENS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.2% | #69 of 2,335 | #8 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #77 of 2,342 ▲ 9 | #13 of 219 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #80 of 2,343 ▲ 25 | #11 of 220 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 818 | #131 of 2,585 | #36 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #2,210 of 2,338 | #209 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.1% | #1,637 of 2,388 | #185 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.1% | #1,491 of 2,534 | #212 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.6% | #984 of 1,757 | #126 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
818
+13 (+2%) vs 2020
0% since 2010-11, when it was 816
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 818 | 49 | 16.7:1 | 47% (385) |
| 2023-24 | 813 | 52 | 15.6:1 | 42% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 774 | 49.7 | 15.6:1 | 41% (320) |
| 2020-21 | 805 | 52 | 15.5:1 | 37% (301) |
| 2017-18 | 936 | 58.1 | 16.1:1 | 45% (420) |
| 2015-16 | 923 | 45 | 20.5:1 | 39% (364) |
| 2010-11 | 816 | 49 | 16.6:1 | 41% (331) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS.
About PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS is a large elementary school in BAYSIDE, New York, administered by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26. A total of 818 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York, enrollment here is 85% higher.
Enrollment across the 34 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 totals 29,203 students.
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS is 77% Asian by enrollment. Other students are 12% Hispanic, 6% White, and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Queens County residents are about 26% Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 39% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS, 49 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 16.7:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 16.7:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 47% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Queens County averages 77%, higher than here.
The allk12 Grade for PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS is A+. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 97% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS is in the top 10% of New York schools: 87.2% actual against 57.7% predicted.
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS is located in Queens County, where the median household income is $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Besides PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS, Queens County has 391 other public schools.
Nearby, BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS at 1st of 9.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS had 805 students in 2020-21 and 818 in 2024-25, nearly the same. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.5:1 to 16.7:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 BAYSIDE
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,004 students
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,866 students
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMiddle · 1,104 students
- MS 158 MARIE CURIEMiddle · 838 students
- PS 46 ALLEY PONDElementary · 520 students
- PS 159Elementary · 504 students
Nearby schools
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 2,866
- CIVIC SCHOOL OF BAYSIDE HILLS (THE)0.4 mi · 143
- PS 31 BAYSIDE0.5 mi · 350
- PS 3760.6 mi · 546
- PS 46 ALLEY POND0.6 mi · 520
- MS 158 MARIE CURIE0.7 mi · 838
Frequently asked questions
About PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENSHow large is PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS?
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS enrolls approximately 818 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS have?
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.7:1.
How diverse is PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS?
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS reports a student body of 6% White, 12% Hispanic, 1% Black, 77% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS?
PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.