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PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)BeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK
Located at 91-37 222ND ST, in QUEENS VILLAGE, New York, PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK is a big elementary campus that serves 735 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK sits 66% bigger than that benchmark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 21,817 students. PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK reports that the largest single group is Asian at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 14% Black, 6% Native American, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 71% of students at PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of +1.8 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Queens County) shows that median household income runs about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: PS 18 WINCHESTER, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.0%.
PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK operates from a downtown location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK has fell 24%, going from 971 students in 2018 to 735 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.
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