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Alumni: what's one memory from PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
1,197
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202119
PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON
45-57 UNION ST, FLUSHING, NY 11355 · (718) 359-2288 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,197 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% 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.
- A+Beats 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
92 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
1,014 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 | 50 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 159 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 181 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 178 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 199 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 213 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 217 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (159) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (217).
Student demographics
27%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
66.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
87.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 87.0% |
| 2023-24 | 62.0% | 83.0% |
% 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
71.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% 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 28 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 24 ANDREW JACKSON
PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON's state test result (71.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON this school | 1,197 | 84.7% | 71.4% |
| PS 105 BLYTHEBOURNE (THE) BROOKLYN | 1,119 | 94.5% | 76.3% |
| PS 160 WILLIAM T SAMPSON BROOKLYN | 965 | 97.0% | 69.6% |
| PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS FLUSHING | 757 | 84.8% | 71.7% |
| PS 131 ABIGAIL ADAMS JAMAICA | 754 | 88.2% | 64.9% |
| PS 20 JOHN BOWNE FLUSHING | 995 | 87.2% | 55.0% |
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 24 ANDREW JACKSON ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #350 of 2,335 | #46 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #194 of 2,342 ▲ 27 | #27 of 219 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #677 of 2,343 ▼ 218 | #93 of 220 ▼ 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,197 | #11 of 2,585 | #5 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #1,641 of 2,338 | #107 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.4% | #1,952 of 2,388 | #204 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.7% | #622 of 2,534 | #77 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.8% | #138 of 606 | #22 of 51 |
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
1,197
+126 (+12%) vs 2020
+44% since 2010-11, when it was 832
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 1,197 | 91.8 | 13.0:1 | 85% (1,014) |
| 2023-24 | 1,183 | 95.1 | 12.4:1 | 84% (995) |
| 2022-23 | 1,111 | 79.6 | 13.9:1 | 74% (822) |
| 2020-21 | 1,071 | 70 | 15.3:1 | 71% (759) |
| 2017-18 | 999 | 64 | 15.6:1 | 70% (699) |
| 2015-16 | 1,032 | 56 | 18.4:1 | 46% (476) |
| 2010-11 | 832 | 57 | 14.6:1 | 84% (702) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON.
About PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON
PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON serves students in FLUSHING, New York, as a high-enrollment elementary school. Enrolled students number 1,197 students, in pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
Across its 46 schools, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 enrolls 33,704 students. PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON is one of those schools.
PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON's enrollment is 84% Asian. Next come 12% Hispanic. The county population is about 26% Asian. PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON's diversity index is 27%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its 91.8 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 13.0:1. That matches the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York fairly closely. The school's lunch program data list 85% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Queens County average 77%.
The allk12 Grade for PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON is A. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 91% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON beats its 43.8% prediction with 71.4%, a top-10% result in New York.
Census estimates describe Queens County this way: 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%. In all, Queens County has 392 public schools and roughly 268,205 students.
EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES is the public school closest to PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON's average proficiency of 71.4% compares with 64.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
Over 4 years, PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON's enrollment climbed 12%, to 1,197. The school's ratio fell from 15.3:1 to 13.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Discussions about PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON may include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 79 FRANCIS LEWISElementary · 1,088 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
- EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES0.3 mi · 700
- IS 2370.3 mi · 1,313
- ACTIVE LEARNING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)0.5 mi · 458
- PS 20 JOHN BOWNE0.5 mi · 995
- JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD0.6 mi · 603
- FLUSHING INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONHow many students attend PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON?
PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON enrolls approximately 1,197 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON serve?
PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON?
At PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON, the student body is approximately 2% White, 12% Hispanic, 1% Black, 84% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON public or private?
PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON 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.