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Enrollment
1,086
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202109
PS 21 EDWARD HART
147-36 26TH AVE, FLUSHING, NY 11354 · (718) 445-8833 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,086 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% 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.
- 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
83 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
872 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 | 25 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 167 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 174 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 159 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 181 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 195 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 184 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (167) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (184).
Student demographics
55%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
69.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
70.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 69.0% |
% 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
64.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 21 EDWARD HART
PS 21 EDWARD HART's state test result (64.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 21 EDWARD HART this school | 1,086 | 80.3% | 64.6% |
| PS 102 BAYVIEW ELMHURST | 1,107 | 79.0% | 71.7% |
| PS 205 CLARION BROOKLYN | 1,093 | 79.5% | 69.7% |
| PS 7 LOUIS F SIMEONE ELMHURST | 1,187 | 84.3% | 74.1% |
| PS 204 VINCE LOMBARDI BROOKLYN | 994 | 78.3% | 64.4% |
| PS 230 DORIS L COHEN BROOKLYN | 925 | 78.1% | 61.1% |
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 21 EDWARD HART ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.6% | #575 of 2,335 | #79 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #699 of 2,342 ▼ 109 | #96 of 219 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #559 of 2,343 ▼ 26 | #74 of 220 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,086 | #26 of 2,585 | #13 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #1,662 of 2,338 | #112 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.3% | #990 of 2,388 | #135 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.3% | #760 of 2,534 | #111 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.6% | #487 of 1,757 | #69 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
1,086
-136 (-11%) vs 2020
-4% since 2010-11, when it was 1,135
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 1,086 | 82.8 | 13.1:1 | 80% (872) |
| 2023-24 | 1,086 | 76.9 | 14.1:1 | 79% (857) |
| 2022-23 | 1,073 | 73 | 14.7:1 | 78% (840) |
| 2020-21 | 1,222 | 76 | 16.1:1 | 78% (950) |
| 2017-18 | 1,422 | 88 | 16.2:1 | 78% (1,112) |
| 2015-16 | 1,354 | 78 | 17.4:1 | 77% (1,041) |
| 2010-11 | 1,135 | 73 | 15.6:1 | 81% (923) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 21 EDWARD HART.
About PS 21 EDWARD HART
PS 21 EDWARD HART is a large elementary school in New York, with an address in FLUSHING. The student body numbers 1,086 students, from pre-K through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 145% bigger than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 is the local district for PS 21 EDWARD HART. It runs 46 schools with 33,704 students.
PS 21 EDWARD HART's enrollment is 57% Asian. The remaining shares are 35% Hispanic and 5% White. Census estimates put the Asian share of Queens County's population at about 26%. PS 21 EDWARD HART has a diversity index of 55%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school has about 13.1 students per teacher and 82.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in New York average about 12.8:1, a similar figure. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 80%.
The allk12 Grade for PS 21 EDWARD HART is A-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 83% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, PS 21 EDWARD HART is 19.1 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
PS 21 EDWARD HART is located in Queens County, where median household income is about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 392 public schools in Queens County, with a combined enrollment of about 268,205.
Nearby, JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER is less than a tenth of a mile away. PS 21 EDWARD HART is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: PS 21 EDWARD HART ranks 5th of 9 nearby schools, at 64.6% versus a 63.5% average.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 1,222 in 2020-21 and 1,086 in 2024-25, an 11% decrease. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.1:1) than in 2020-21 (16.1:1).
Community posts for PS 21 EDWARD HART can cover science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER0.0 mi · 1,516
- PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN0.6 mi · 331
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES0.8 mi · 441
- PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 303
- VERITAS ACADEMY0.8 mi · 653
- QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About PS 21 EDWARD HARTHow many students attend PS 21 EDWARD HART?
PS 21 EDWARD HART enrolls approximately 1,086 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 21 EDWARD HART serve?
PS 21 EDWARD HART serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 21 EDWARD HART have?
PS 21 EDWARD HART employs 83 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
How diverse is PS 21 EDWARD HART?
PS 21 EDWARD HART reports a student body of 5% White, 35% Hispanic, 1% Black, 57% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 21 EDWARD HART in?
PS 21 EDWARD HART 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.