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Enrollment
596
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202722
PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER
144-39 GRAVETT RD, FLUSHING, NY 11367 · (718) 793-2130 · Queens County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL596 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
8.9:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
445 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 | 28 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 68 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 28% smaller than its 8th grade class (68).
Student demographics
62%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
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
69.5%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 69.5% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 66.6% |
% 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
61.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 219 PAUL KLAPPER
PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER's state test result (61.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER this school | 596 | 74.7% | 61.0% |
| PS 26 RUFUS KING FLUSHING | 548 | 72.1% | 61.7% |
| PS 69 JACKSON HEIGHTS JACKSON HEIGHTS | 764 | 71.3% | 57.0% |
| PS 126 JACOB AUGUST RIIS NEW YORK | 575 | 75.1% | 74.9% |
| PS 165 EDITH K BERGTRAUM FLUSHING | 606 | 75.6% | 64.5% |
| PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK QUEENS VILLAGE | 735 | 71.2% | 50.6% |
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 219 PAUL KLAPPER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #712 of 2,335 | #98 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.5% | #725 of 2,342 ▼ 49 | #97 of 219 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #717 of 2,343 ▼ 119 | #103 of 220 ▼ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 596 | #482 of 2,585 | #96 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #165 of 2,338 | #11 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.7% | #631 of 2,388 | #97 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.7% | #902 of 2,534 | #139 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.9% | #1,347 of 1,757 | #146 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
596
-29 (-5%) vs 2020
-2% since 2010-11, when it was 607
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 596 | 66.8 | 8.9:1 | 75% (445) |
| 2023-24 | 611 | 65.6 | 9.3:1 | 71% (436) |
| 2022-23 | 594 | 62.6 | 9.5:1 | 71% (421) |
| 2020-21 | 625 | 64 | 9.8:1 | 74% (461) |
| 2017-18 | 640 | 68 | 9.4:1 | 74% (474) |
| 2015-16 | 682 | 58 | 11.8:1 | 74% (505) |
| 2010-11 | 607 | 52 | 11.7:1 | 78% (471) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER.
About PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER
PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER is an elementary school located in FLUSHING, New York, in Queens County. The student body numbers 596 students, from pre-K through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 has 46 schools and 33,704 students, and PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER is one of those schools.
Asian students account for 52% of enrollment at PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER. Other students are 32% Hispanic, 10% White, and 3% Black. That is higher than the 26% Asian share among all Queens County residents. PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER has a diversity index of 62%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER total 66.8 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 8.9:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 75%. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is about the same, 77%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In New York, PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 61.0% actual against a predicted 47.5%.
County data help place the school in context: in Queens County, median household income is about $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER is among the 392 public schools in Queens County.
The closest public school to PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER is TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 61.0% is below the 66.1% average for nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 596, 5% below the 625 of 2020-21.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,342
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 2,778
- QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE)0.3 mi · 536
- PS 165 EDITH K BERGTRAUM0.6 mi · 606
- PS 201 DISCOVERY SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND RESEARCH (THE)0.6 mi · 304
- PS 1200.7 mi · 748
Frequently asked questions
About PS 219 PAUL KLAPPERHow large is PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER?
PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER enrolls approximately 596 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER serve?
PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER is approximately 8.9:1 (67 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER?
Student demographics at PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER are roughly 10% White, 32% Hispanic, 3% Black, 52% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER in?
PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
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