PS 41 CROCHERON

PS 41 CROCHERON is a moderately sized elementary-level community in BAYSIDE, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26. The school works with 445 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PS 41 CROCHERON is one of 34 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26, a district that caters to 29,203 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PS 41 CROCHERON lists that the largest single group is Asian, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 21% Hispanic, 16% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 41 CROCHERON higher than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Queens County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 41 CROCHERON sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 57.5%; actual is 87.9%, +30.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Queens County shows median household earnings sit near $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which PS 41 CROCHERON is one.

BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 41 CROCHERON ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 74.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 41 CROCHERON's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 488 (now 445). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 49% to 61%.

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