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If you had an hour of school board time for PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
904
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010002222
PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
143-26 101ST AVE, JAMAICA, NY 11435 · (718) 526-5336 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL904 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
832 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 82 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 114 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 125 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 132 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 165 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 154 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (114) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (132).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
48.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
52.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 50.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 904 | 92.0% | 45.4% |
| PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH JAMAICA | 810 | 94.3% | 32.6% |
| PS 47 JOHN RANDOLPH BRONX | 789 | 95.7% | 28.5% |
| PS/IS 268 JAMAICA | 696 | 83.5% | 47.4% |
| PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS BRONX | 617 | 90.1% | 39.7% |
| PS 13 CLEMENT C MOORE ELMHURST | 815 | 80.7% | 52.5% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.4% | #1,371 of 2,335 | #164 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,354 of 2,342 ▼ 74 | #170 of 219 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,409 of 2,343 ▼ 228 | #172 of 220 ▼ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 904 | #76 of 2,585 | #28 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #1,510 of 2,338 | #90 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.7% | #378 of 2,388 | #58 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.0% | #336 of 2,534 | #29 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.7% | #217 of 606 | #27 of 51 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
904
+112 (+14%) vs 2020
0% since 2010-11, when it was 903
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 17.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 904 | 71.5 | 12.6:1 | 92% (832) |
| 2023-24 | 904 | 77.7 | 11.6:1 | 85% (771) |
| 2022-23 | 834 | 62.2 | 13.4:1 | 86% (716) |
| 2020-21 | 792 | 46 | 17.2:1 | 93% (737) |
| 2017-18 | 802 | 53 | 15.1:1 | 95% (761) |
| 2015-16 | 804 | 51 | 15.8:1 | 91% (735) |
| 2010-11 | 903 | 55 | 16.4:1 | 96% (866) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the name of a large elementary school in JAMAICA, New York. The school's enrollment of 904 students covers pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 104% higher than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
Federal data list 50 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, with 36,340 students enrolled.
At 50%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. Other students are 21% Asian, 16% Black, 8% Native American, and 2% White. By comparison, Queens County residents are about 28% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 67%.
Federal data list 71.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 12.6:1. Elementary schools in New York average about 12.8:1, a similar figure. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 92%. For comparison, public schools in Queens County average 77%.
allk12 grades PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 41.1% for a school in New York with PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 45.4%.
Census estimates describe Queens County this way: median household income is about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 392 public schools in Queens County, with a combined enrollment of about 268,205.
PS 55 MAURE is the closest public school, about 0.5 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 7th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students climbed from 792 to 904 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.6:1, from 17.2:1.
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Queens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,323,052
Census ACS
Median income
$86,136
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
392
268,205 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Other schools in JAMAICA
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL IIElementary · 810 students
- PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITHElementary · 810 students
Nearby schools
- PS 55 MAURE0.5 mi · 466
- DAVID N DINKINS SCHOOL0.5 mi · 446
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE0.6 mi · 495
- PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP0.6 mi · 661
- PS 82 HAMMOND0.7 mi · 674
- PS 161 ARTHUR ASHE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 558
Frequently asked questions
About PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 904 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 72 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 50% Hispanic, 16% Black, 21% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.