Enrollment
225
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009902693
PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
75-25 BELL BLVD, BAYSIDE, NY 11361 · (718) 464-5773 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL225 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.0:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
83 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 22 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 36 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 24 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (36) is 16% larger than its 5th grade class (31).
Student demographics
65%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
83.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
84.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 84.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 82.0% |
% 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
82.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% 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 21 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 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL's state test result (82.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL this school | 225 | 36.9% | 82.2% |
| WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL HICKSVILLE | 277 | 42.6% | 58.7% |
| PS 186 CASTLEWOOD BELLEROSE | 319 | 48.0% | 72.3% |
| FORK LANE SCHOOL HICKSVILLE | 270 | 50.7% | 42.4% |
| PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) DOUGLASTON | 264 | 28.0% | 86.7% |
| PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS WHITESTONE | 445 | 41.3% | 78.9% |
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 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #140 of 2,335 | #21 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #242 of 2,342 ▲ 2 | #33 of 219 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #176 of 2,343 ▼ 61 | #26 of 220 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 225 | #2,301 of 2,585 | #221 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #2,034 of 2,338 | #175 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.0% | #466 of 2,388 | #71 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.9% | #1,782 of 2,534 | #219 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.2% | #261 of 1,757 | #32 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
225
-54 (-19%) vs 2020
-26% since 2010-11, when it was 303
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 225 | 15 | 15.0:1 | 37% (83) |
| 2023-24 | 236 | 17 | 13.9:1 | 41% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 237 | 17.8 | 13.3:1 | 35% (83) |
| 2020-21 | 279 | 20 | 13.9:1 | 32% (89) |
| 2017-18 | 327 | 22 | 14.9:1 | 28% (91) |
| 2015-16 | 310 | 17 | 18.2:1 | 26% (81) |
| 2010-11 | 303 | 21 | 14.4:1 | 32% (98) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.
About PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL is a low-enrollment elementary school found in BAYSIDE, New York. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 225 students. It has 49% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 enrolls 29,203 students, and its 34 schools include PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.
The largest group at PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL is Asian students, at 52%. Other students are 24% Hispanic, 12% White, 6% multiracial, and 5% Black. By comparison, Queens County residents are about 26% Asian. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
The school's 15 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Income data for the school show 37% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Queens County report 77%.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL lands at A+, ahead of 95% of New York public elementary schools.
In New York, PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 82.2% compared with a predicted 61.4%.
In the surrounding county, Queens County, median household income comes to about $86,136, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 392, with about 268,205 students.
Measured in a straight line, PS 188 KINGSBURY is about 0.2 miles from PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ranks 4th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL had a net loss of 54 students, or 19%. By 2024-25, the school had 15.0 students per teacher, compared with 13.9 in 2020-21.
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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 #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 203 OAKLAND GARDENSElementary · 818 students
- PS 46 ALLEY PONDElementary · 520 students
Nearby schools
- PS 188 KINGSBURY0.2 mi · 637
- PS 46 ALLEY POND0.5 mi · 520
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE0.8 mi · 1,104
- PS 213 CARL ULLMAN SCHOOL (THE)0.9 mi · 374
- BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 601
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,131
Frequently asked questions
About PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLHow many students attend PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL?
PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL enrolls approximately 225 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL serve?
PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL have?
PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1.
How diverse is PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL?
PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL reports a student body of 12% White, 24% Hispanic, 5% Black, 52% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL in?
PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26.
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