PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)

Located at 57-40 MARATHON PKWY, in LITTLE NECK, New York, PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) is a mid-tier elementary school that hosts 504 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 29,203 students; PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) lists that the largest single group is Asian, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 17% Hispanic, 16% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.2%, the actual is 77.6%, a residual of +18.4 points.

Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PS Q811, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 78.3%.

PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)'s enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 626 (now 504). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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