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Enrollment
682
Elementary
DISTRICT 651 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202136
PS 29
125-10 23RD AVE, COLLEGE POINT, NY 11356 · (718) 886-5111 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL682 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test 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
12.5:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
617 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 | 22 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 117 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 120 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 123 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (123).
Student demographics
46%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
53.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 44.0% |
% 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
44.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 29
PS 29's state test result (44.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 29 this school | 682 | 90.5% | 44.9% |
| PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS BRONX | 617 | 90.1% | 39.7% |
| PS 90 HORACE MANN RICHMOND HILL | 586 | 91.5% | 45.3% |
| PS 82 HAMMOND JAMAICA | 674 | 89.0% | 33.9% |
| PS 148 EAST ELMHURST | 653 | 86.7% | 39.2% |
| PS 97 FOREST PARK WOODHAVEN | 575 | 88.2% | 47.3% |
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 29 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #1,395 of 2,335 | #168 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,435 of 2,342 ▲ 83 | #179 of 219 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,212 of 2,343 ▲ 162 | #159 of 220 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 682 | #298 of 2,585 | #73 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #1,442 of 2,338 | #81 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.3% | #1,385 of 2,388 | #168 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.5% | #393 of 2,534 | #34 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.5% | #1,309 of 1,757 | #143 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
682
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
+2% since 2010-11, when it was 669
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 682 | 54.6 | 12.5:1 | 90% (617) |
| 2023-24 | 707 | 55 | 12.9:1 | 89% (628) |
| 2022-23 | 732 | 48.9 | 15.0:1 | 87% (640) |
| 2020-21 | 700 | 54 | 13.0:1 | 84% (586) |
| 2017-18 | 737 | 49 | 15.0:1 | 87% (644) |
| 2015-16 | 767 | 51 | 15.0:1 | 89% (679) |
| 2010-11 | 669 | 47 | 14.2:1 | 69% (460) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 29.
About PS 29
PS 29 is a high-enrollment elementary school in COLLEGE POINT, New York. Federal data show 682 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 54% above average.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 has 46 schools and 33,704 students, and PS 29 is one of those schools.
About 70% of the student body at PS 29 is Hispanic. Other groups make up 20% Asian and 7% White. County-wide, 28% of Queens County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 46%.
There are 54.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 12.5:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 12.8:1. Of all students at PS 29, 90% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is 77%.
PS 29 earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 50% of New York public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For PS 29, the prediction is 41.7% and the result is 44.9%.
In the wider Queens County area, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Queens County, 392 public schools serve about 268,205 students.
About 0.5 miles separate PS 29 from the closest public school, COLLEGE POINT COLLABORATIVE. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 55.0%; PS 29's is 44.9%, ranking 8th of 9.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 700 (2020-21) to 682 (2024-25).
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 COLLEGE POINT
- PS 129 PATRICIA LARKINElementary · 1,071 students
- COLLEGE POINT COLLABORATIVEMiddle · 436 students
Nearby schools
- COLLEGE POINT COLLABORATIVE0.5 mi · 436
- PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 303
- PS 129 PATRICIA LARKIN0.9 mi · 1,071
- PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN0.9 mi · 331
- QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 351
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,650
Frequently asked questions
About PS 29How many students attend PS 29?
PS 29 enrolls approximately 682 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 29 an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 29 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 29?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 29 is approximately 12.5:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 29?
At PS 29, the student body is approximately 7% White, 70% Hispanic, 2% Black, 20% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is PS 29 public or private?
PS 29 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.