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Enrollment
445
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202703
PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS
16-10 UTOPIA PKWY, WHITESTONE, NY 11357 · (718) 352-3939 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL445 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% 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
13.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
184 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 | 7 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
59%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
84.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
86.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.0% | 86.0% |
| 2023-24 | 70.0% | 83.0% |
% 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
78.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS
PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS's state test result (78.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS this school | 445 | 41.3% | 78.9% |
| PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) LITTLE NECK | 504 | 42.9% | 77.6% |
| PS 41 CROCHERON BAYSIDE | 445 | 47.6% | 87.9% |
| PS 46 ALLEY POND BAYSIDE | 520 | 54.2% | 71.3% |
| 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE) ASTORIA | 525 | 27.6% | 98.2% |
| PS 188 KINGSBURY FLUSHING | 637 | 38.9% | 86.0% |
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 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.9% | #188 of 2,335 | #27 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #212 of 2,342 ▲ 10 | #29 of 219 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #156 of 2,343 ▲ 101 | #22 of 220 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 445 | #1,101 of 2,585 | #165 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #1,654 of 2,338 | #109 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.2% | #743 of 2,388 | #109 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.3% | #1,658 of 2,534 | #216 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.8% | #478 of 1,757 | #65 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
445
-109 (-20%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 612
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 445 | 34 | 13.1:1 | 41% (184) |
| 2023-24 | 457 | 33.9 | 13.5:1 | 40% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 500 | 34.8 | 14.4:1 | 41% (207) |
| 2020-21 | 554 | 37 | 15.0:1 | 40% (222) |
| 2017-18 | 584 | 39 | 15.0:1 | 41% (237) |
| 2015-16 | 578 | 37 | 15.6:1 | 36% (208) |
| 2010-11 | 612 | 42 | 14.6:1 | 37% (225) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS.
About PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS
In WHITESTONE, New York, part of Queens County, PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS is an elementary school. School enrollment was 445 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5.
Enrollment across the 46 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 totals 33,704 students.
PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS is 58% Asian by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 20% White, 19% Hispanic, and 2% multiracial. In Queens County overall, about 26% of residents are Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 59% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 34 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 13.1:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 41%. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is 77%.
allk12 grades PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 78.9%, compared with a predicted 59.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Federal survey data for Queens County show that the median household income is $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 392 public schools in Queens County, enrolling about 268,205 students in all.
The closest other public school is PS 184 FLUSHING MANOR, about 0.4 miles away. PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS's average proficiency of 78.9% compares with 72.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
In the federal locale system, PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS declined 20% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 554 to 445 students. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.0:1 to 13.1:1 over the same years.
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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 #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 WHITESTONE
- PS 79 FRANCIS LEWISElementary · 1,088 students
- JHS 194 WILLIAM CARRMiddle · 986 students
- PS 193 ALFRED J KENNEDYElementary · 559 students
- PS 184 FLUSHING MANORElementary · 462 students
Nearby schools
- PS 184 FLUSHING MANOR0.4 mi · 462
- JHS 194 WILLIAM CARR0.6 mi · 986
- PS 169 BAY TERRACE0.9 mi · 406
- BELL ACADEMY0.9 mi · 441
- PS 193 ALFRED J KENNEDY0.9 mi · 559
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 3,004
Frequently asked questions
About PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENSHow many students attend PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS?
PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS enrolls approximately 445 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS serve?
PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS.
How diverse is PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS?
PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS reports a student body of 20% White, 19% Hispanic, 1% Black, 58% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS in?
PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS 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.