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Enrollment
447
Elementary
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010206186
PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS
34-20 94TH ST, JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372 · (718) 424-9031 · Queens County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL447 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
11.5:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
412 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
25%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
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 45.0% |
% 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
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS
PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS's state test result (38.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS this school | 447 | 92.2% | 38.3% |
| EAST ELMHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOL EAST ELMHURST | 433 | 94.7% | 40.2% |
| LEEP DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 435 | 91.7% | 49.5% |
| HELEN M MARSHALL SCHOOL CORONA | 462 | 95.7% | 36.3% |
| PS 24 BROOKLYN | 544 | 91.2% | 34.5% |
| PS 123 SUYDAM BROOKLYN | 446 | 95.1% | 32.2% |
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 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #1,699 of 2,335 | #190 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,433 of 2,342 ▲ 45 | #178 of 219 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,824 of 2,343 ▲ 72 | #197 of 220 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 447 | #1,085 of 2,585 | #162 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #1,038 of 2,338 | #50 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.8% | #2,004 of 2,388 | #207 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.2% | #331 of 2,534 | #26 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.8% | #195 of 1,757 | #24 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
447
-91 (-17%) vs 2020
+318% since 2010-11, when it was 107
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 447 | 39 | 11.5:1 | 92% (412) |
| 2023-24 | 452 | 39.1 | 11.6:1 | 96% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 37 | 12.8:1 | 91% (432) |
| 2020-21 | 538 | 43 | 12.5:1 | 96% (516) |
| 2017-18 | 686 | 45 | 15.2:1 | 95% (649) |
| 2015-16 | 702 | 41 | 17.1:1 | 97% (682) |
| 2010-11 | 107 | 10 | 10.7:1 | 95% (102) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS.
About PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS
PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS is an elementary school in JACKSON HEIGHTS, New York, and it is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. Enrollment is 447 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 operates 53 schools. Combined enrollment is 35,337 students.
Hispanic students make up 86% of enrollment at PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS. Smaller groups are 6% Asian, 4% Native American, and 2% White. For comparison, the population of Queens County is roughly 28% Hispanic. PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS's diversity index is 25%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its 39 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 11.5:1. This ratio sits 1.4 below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 92%. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 15 points.
allk12 grades PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS a C+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In New York, PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 38.3% actual against a predicted 41.1%.
Queens County census figures show that the median household income is $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 392 public schools in Queens County, enrolling about 268,205 students in all.
The shortest distance from PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to PS 149 CHRISTA MCAULIFFE. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 43.6%, higher than PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS's 38.3%.
Federal data place PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 17% from 2020-21, when PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS had 538 students, to 2024-25, when it had 447. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.5:1 in 2020-21, and 11.5:1 in 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 #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Other schools in JACKSON HEIGHTS
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- IS 230Middle · 949 students
- PS 69 JACKSON HEIGHTSElementary · 764 students
- PS 149 CHRISTA MCAULIFFEElementary · 706 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 657 students
- PS 212Elementary · 562 students
Nearby schools
- PS 149 CHRISTA MCAULIFFE0.1 mi · 706
- IVAN LAFAYETTE EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)0.3 mi · 222
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG0.3 mi · 1,555
- PS 92 HARRY T STEWART SR0.3 mi · 867
- PS 222-FIRE FIGHTER CHRISTOPHER A SANTORA SCHOOL0.4 mi · 197
- PS 1480.4 mi · 653
Frequently asked questions
About PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTSHow large is PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS?
PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS enrolls approximately 447 students in grades KG-05.
Is PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS have?
PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS?
Student demographics at PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS are roughly 2% White, 86% Hispanic, 1% Black, 6% Asian.
What district is PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS in?
PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.