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Enrollment
747
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202115
PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON
153-33 SANFORD AVE, FLUSHING, NY 11355 · (718) 762-4141 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL747 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 84% 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
13.0:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
641 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 | 18 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 125 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 131 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 121 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 143 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (111) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (143).
Student demographics
54%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
67.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
77.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 77.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New York's top 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 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON
PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON's state test result (65.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON this school | 747 | 85.8% | 65.5% |
| PS 12 JAMES B COLGATE WOODSIDE | 838 | 85.9% | 59.0% |
| PS 86 JAMAICA | 689 | 85.5% | 57.5% |
| PS 152 GWENDOLINE N ALLEYNE SCHOOL WOODSIDE | 628 | 85.4% | 57.9% |
| PS 120 FLUSHING | 748 | 90.1% | 53.2% |
| PS 107 THOMAS A DOOLEY FLUSHING | 806 | 83.9% | 48.3% |
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 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #546 of 2,335 | #71 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #450 of 2,342 ▼ 83 | #67 of 219 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #639 of 2,343 ▲ 30 | #89 of 220 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 747 | #211 of 2,585 | #59 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #1,632 of 2,338 | #103 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.7% | #1,077 of 2,388 | #143 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.8% | #580 of 2,534 | #69 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.8% | #669 of 1,757 | #91 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
747
-77 (-9%) vs 2020
-6% since 2010-11, when it was 794
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 747 | 57.4 | 13.0:1 | 86% (641) |
| 2023-24 | 733 | 56.3 | 13.0:1 | 85% (623) |
| 2022-23 | 750 | 66.7 | 11.3:1 | 85% (634) |
| 2020-21 | 824 | 63 | 13.1:1 | 88% (727) |
| 2017-18 | 920 | 67 | 13.7:1 | 91% (838) |
| 2015-16 | 851 | 57 | 14.9:1 | 88% (752) |
| 2010-11 | 794 | 54 | 14.7:1 | 89% (703) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
About PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON
Located in FLUSHING, New York, PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON is a high-enrollment elementary school. It reported 747 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 has a total of 46 schools and 33,704 students, PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON among them.
The student body at PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON is 55% Asian. Other reported shares: 40% Hispanic and 2% White. Queens County's residents are about 26% Asian, 29 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.
PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1, with 57.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 86% at PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON. The average for public schools in Queens County is 77%.
PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 84% of New York public elementary schools.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON is among the top 10% of schools in New York. Predicted: 43.4%. Actual: 65.5%.
In the wider Queens County area, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON shares Queens County with 391 other public schools.
JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD is the nearest public school to PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON, about 0.4 miles away. PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 65.5% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 9 nearby schools.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 824 to 747, a 9% decline.
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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 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 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD0.4 mi · 603
- FLUSHING INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 390
- PS 20 JOHN BOWNE0.7 mi · 995
- PS 107 THOMAS A DOOLEY0.7 mi · 806
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON0.8 mi · 1,197
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES0.8 mi · 441
Frequently asked questions
About PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSONWhat is the total enrollment at PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON?
PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON enrolls approximately 747 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
What is the student diversity at PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON?
Student demographics at PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON are roughly 2% White, 40% Hispanic, 1% Black, 55% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON public or private?
PS 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.