PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON

PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON operates as a big primary school in FLUSHING, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. Current enrollment sits at 1,197 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 170% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 46 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 (33,704 students total), PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (84%). The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 43.8%; PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON posts 71.4%, +27.6 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Queens County shows median household earnings sit near $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

Nearest neighbor: EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON. On composite proficiency, PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 64.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON's enrollment has climbed 20% since 2018, when it stood at 999 (now 1,197). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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