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PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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%.
7-year change
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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