PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL

PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in FOREST HILLS, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, educateing 616 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 39% larger than typical.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, which oversees 50 schools and 36,340 students, PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL logs that the most-represented group is Asian (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 25% White, 10% Black, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL records 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.1%; this one delivers 45.5%.

In the broader community, Queens County reports that 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%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL is one.

HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND BUSINESS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 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 220 EDWARD MANDEL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 53.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 709 (now 616). The White share of enrollment fell from 37% to 25% over that span.

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