Enrollment
303
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012204892
PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL
29-66 137TH ST, FLUSHING, NY 11354 · (718) 445-2902 · Queens County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL303 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test 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
12.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
202 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 30% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
37%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +19.0pp since 2023
Math
84.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 84.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 74.0% |
% 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
71.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% 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 21 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 →
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PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL's state test result (71.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL this school | 303 | 66.7% | 71.8% |
| PS 162 JOHN GOLDEN BAYSIDE | 441 | 72.1% | 69.1% |
| PS 191 MAYFLOWER FLORAL PARK | 327 | 68.5% | 64.1% |
| PS 94 DAVID D PORTER LITTLE NECK | 353 | 51.6% | 91.2% |
| PS 130 BAYSIDE | 361 | 57.6% | 84.2% |
| PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO NEW YORK | 526 | 62.2% | 75.1% |
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 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #340 of 2,335 | #43 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #247 of 2,342 ▲ 195 | #36 of 219 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #398 of 2,343 ▲ 272 | #52 of 220 ▲ 50 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 303 | #1,975 of 2,585 | #207 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #1,504 of 2,338 | #89 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.6% | #1,702 of 2,388 | #191 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #1,039 of 2,534 | #172 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.1% | #512 of 1,757 | #72 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
303
-98 (-24%) vs 2020
-14% since 2010-11, when it was 354
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 303 | 24 | 12.6:1 | 67% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 287 | 22.8 | 12.6:1 | 69% (199) |
| 2022-23 | 308 | 24.6 | 12.5:1 | 72% (223) |
| 2020-21 | 401 | 30 | 13.4:1 | 70% (280) |
| 2017-18 | 394 | 33 | 11.9:1 | 64% (254) |
| 2015-16 | 392 | 32 | 12.3:1 | 72% (282) |
| 2010-11 | 354 | 36 | 9.8:1 | 68% (241) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL.
About PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL
FLUSHING, New York, is home to PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL, a small elementary school. The school offers pre-K through 3 and enrolls 303 students. The school is 32% below the average for elementary schools in New York.
PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL belongs to NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, a district of 46 schools and 33,704 students.
About 78% of the student body at PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is Asian. The rest of enrollment is 14% Hispanic and 3% Black. Among all residents of Queens County, the Asian share is about 26%. The diversity index for PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is 37%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.6:1. The school has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is close to this figure. In all, 67% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 10 points.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 89% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 21.3 points (71.8% versus 50.5%), a top-10% result in New York on BeatsExpectations.
Queens County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL among them.
PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN is about 0.2 miles from PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 57.8% proficiency; PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL posts 71.8%.
PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 24% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 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
- PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN0.2 mi · 331
- QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 351
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,650
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES0.4 mi · 441
- VERITAS ACADEMY0.4 mi · 653
- PS 21 EDWARD HART0.8 mi · 1,086
Frequently asked questions
About PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOLHow large is PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL?
PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL enrolls approximately 303 students in grades PK-03.
What grades does PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL serve?
PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL serves grades PK-03.
How many students per teacher at PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL.
How diverse is PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL?
PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL reports a student body of 1% White, 14% Hispanic, 3% Black, 78% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL in?
PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
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