PS 47 CHRIS GALAS

PS 47 CHRIS GALAS operates as a small elementary-level community in BROAD CHANNEL, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. Current enrollment sits at 271 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 39% smaller than typical.

PS 47 CHRIS GALAS is one of 63 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, a district that enrolls 39,209 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PS 47 CHRIS GALAS records that White students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school records 19% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at PS 47 CHRIS GALAS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Queens County's rate of about 77%.

With demographic context factored in, PS 47 CHRIS GALAS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 66.1%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Queens County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 47 CHRIS GALAS is one.

The closest other public school is CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCH, roughly 1.4 miles away. 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 47 CHRIS GALAS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 47 CHRIS GALAS has expanded 24%, going from 218 students in 2018 to 271 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 78% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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