PS 419

PS 419 is one of the moderately sized middle schools in FLUSHING, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, with 602 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, which oversees 57 schools and 48,008 students, PS 419 is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 419 logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 2% Asian, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, PS 419 shows 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PS 419 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.0%; this one delivers 31.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which PS 419 is one.

HELEN M MARSHALL SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 419. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 419 ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.1%.

PS 419 operates from an inner-city location.

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