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What's one thing PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
504
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009902726
PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)
57-40 MARATHON PKWY, LITTLE NECK, NY 11362 · (718) 225-7029 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL504 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest 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
13.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
216 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 33 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
81.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
82.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 82.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 84.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)
PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (77.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) this school | 504 | 42.9% | 77.6% |
| PS 41 CROCHERON BAYSIDE | 445 | 47.6% | 87.9% |
| PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS WHITESTONE | 445 | 41.3% | 78.9% |
| PS 188 KINGSBURY FLUSHING | 637 | 38.9% | 86.0% |
| PS 46 ALLEY POND BAYSIDE | 520 | 54.2% | 71.3% |
| JAMES J AMBROSE SCHOOL (THE) FLORAL PARK | 659 | 50.7% | 75.5% |
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 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.6% | #201 of 2,335 | #28 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #295 of 2,342 ▼ 88 | #42 of 219 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #219 of 2,343 ▲ 72 | #34 of 220 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 504 | #804 of 2,585 | #141 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,834 of 2,338 | #142 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.4% | #1,034 of 2,388 | #137 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.9% | #1,610 of 2,534 | #215 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.5% | #638 of 1,757 | #88 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
504
-83 (-14%) vs 2020
-21% since 2010-11, when it was 635
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 504 | 36.5 | 13.8:1 | 43% (216) |
| 2023-24 | 498 | 33.8 | 14.7:1 | 46% (228) |
| 2022-23 | 543 | 37.5 | 14.5:1 | 43% (232) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | 38 | 15.4:1 | 41% (239) |
| 2017-18 | 626 | 39 | 16.0:1 | 40% (250) |
| 2015-16 | 634 | 39 | 16.3:1 | 40% (252) |
| 2010-11 | 635 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 36% (229) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE).
About PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)
PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school with a street address in LITTLE NECK, New York. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 504 students enrolled.
PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) sits within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26, which has 34 schools and 29,203 students.
Roughly 63% of students at PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) are Asian. The rest of enrollment is 17% Hispanic and 16% White. Among all residents of Queens County, the Asian share is about 26%. PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)'s diversity index is 54%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 36.5 full-time positions, a ratio of 13.8:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 13.8:1 here. Around 43% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 34 points.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) 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.
PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)'s actual average proficiency rate on state tests (77.6%) and its predicted rate (59.2%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Queens County show that the median household income is $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Besides PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE), Queens County has 391 other public schools.
The school nearest to PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) is PS Q811, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) places 3rd of 5 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)'s enrollment declined from 587 in 2020-21 to 504 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 13.8:1, from 15.4:1.
Community posts for PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. 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 #26
- FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,573 students
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,004 students
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,866 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,131 students
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMiddle · 1,104 students
Other schools in LITTLE NECK
- JHS 67 LOUIS PASTEURMiddle · 999 students
- PS Q811Combined · 528 students
- PS 94 DAVID D PORTERElementary · 353 students
Nearby schools
- PS Q8110.2 mi · 528
- JHS 67 LOUIS PASTEUR0.3 mi · 999
- PS 186 CASTLEWOOD0.8 mi · 319
- PS 2240.8 mi · 414
- PS/IS 2660.9 mi · 465
- PS 23 AT QUEENS CHILDREN CENTER0.9 mi · 389
Frequently asked questions
About PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)How many students attend PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)?
PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 504 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) is approximately 13.8:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)?
At PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE), the student body is approximately 16% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 63% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) public or private?
PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.