PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS

PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS, a medium-sized elementary-level community in WHITESTONE, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, works with 445 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS is one of 46 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, a district that caters to 33,704 students overall.

Demographically, PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS shows that 58% of the student body identifies as Asian. The remainder consists of 20% White, 19% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.8%, the actual is 78.9%, a residual of +19.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Queens County) records that median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS is one campus in the mix.

PS 184 FLUSHING MANOR is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 72.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 584 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 35% to 20%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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