PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN

PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN operates as a modestly sized elementary-level community in FLUSHING, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. Current enrollment sits at 331 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 25% leaner than typical.

PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN is one of 46 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, a district that instructs 33,704 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN logs that the largest single group is Asian, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 57.7%, a residual of +11.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 60.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN's enrollment has decreased 38% since 2018, when it stood at 537 (now 331). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 69% to 59%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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