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Enrollment
462
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010002236
PS 54 HILLSIDE
86-02 127TH ST, RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418 · (718) 849-0962 · Queens County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL462 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
12.1:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
416 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
57%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
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +20.0pp since 2023
Math
60.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 59.0% |
% 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
53.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 54 HILLSIDE
PS 54 HILLSIDE's state test result (53.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 54 HILLSIDE this school | 462 | 90.0% | 53.1% |
| BEDFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRONX | 439 | 88.4% | 31.1% |
| PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD LONG ISLAND CITY | 505 | 85.7% | 40.1% |
| PS 90 HORACE MANN RICHMOND HILL | 586 | 91.5% | 45.3% |
| DR EMMETT W BASSETT SCHOOL (THE) BRONX | 508 | 97.0% | 48.3% |
| PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS BRONX | 617 | 90.1% | 39.7% |
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 54 HILLSIDE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #1,041 of 2,335 | #129 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #1,061 of 2,342 ▼ 101 | #139 of 219 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #710 of 2,343 ▲ 348 | #99 of 220 ▲ 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 462 | #1,013 of 2,585 | #155 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #1,323 of 2,338 | #70 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.7% | #893 of 2,388 | #119 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.0% | #414 of 2,534 | #37 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.2% | #702 of 1,757 | #95 of 167 |
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
462
-13 (-3%) vs 2020
-14% since 2010-11, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 462 | 38.1 | 12.1:1 | 90% (416) |
| 2023-24 | 443 | 34.7 | 12.8:1 | 89% (395) |
| 2022-23 | 440 | 34 | 13.0:1 | 81% (358) |
| 2020-21 | 475 | 33 | 14.4:1 | 84% (400) |
| 2017-18 | 565 | 40 | 14.1:1 | 79% (449) |
| 2015-16 | 590 | 43 | 13.7:1 | 57% (337) |
| 2010-11 | 537 | 40 | 13.4:1 | 89% (477) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 54 HILLSIDE.
About PS 54 HILLSIDE
PS 54 HILLSIDE is a public mid-sized elementary school in RICHMOND HILL, New York. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 462 students in 2024-25.
PS 54 HILLSIDE is a school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28. The district has 50 schools and 36,340 students.
Hispanic students are 62% of those enrolled at PS 54 HILLSIDE. The rest of enrollment is 21% Asian, 5% White, 5% Black, and 4% Native American. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Queens County's population at about 28%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
PS 54 HILLSIDE has a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1, with 38.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 90% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 77% for public schools in Queens County.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 54 HILLSIDE lands at B+, ahead of 66% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 54 HILLSIDE's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 53.1% is 11.3 points above the 41.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
For the population of Queens County, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Across Queens County, 392 public schools serve about 268,205 students.
About 0.5 miles separate PS 54 HILLSIDE from the closest public school, PS 51. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, PS 54 HILLSIDE is 4th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
PS 54 HILLSIDE has an NCES locale of City: Large.
Enrollment was 462 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 475. The ratio was 14.4:1 in 2020-21 and 12.1:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to PS 54 HILLSIDE can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 RICHMOND HILL
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- PS 90 HORACE MANNElementary · 586 students
- PS 254 ROSA PARKS SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 525 students
- S.T.A.R. LEADERSHIP ACADEMYElementary · 507 students
- PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSISElementary · 470 students
- PS 55 MAUREElementary · 466 students
Nearby schools
- PS 510.5 mi · 202
- PS 99 KEW GARDENS0.6 mi · 758
- PS 56 HARRY EICHLER0.6 mi · 360
- PS 82 HAMMOND0.7 mi · 674
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,841
- EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH0.7 mi · 373
Frequently asked questions
About PS 54 HILLSIDEHow large is PS 54 HILLSIDE?
PS 54 HILLSIDE enrolls approximately 462 students in grades KG-05.
Is PS 54 HILLSIDE an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 54 HILLSIDE is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does PS 54 HILLSIDE have?
PS 54 HILLSIDE employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 54 HILLSIDE?
Student demographics at PS 54 HILLSIDE are roughly 5% White, 62% Hispanic, 5% Black, 21% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 54 HILLSIDE in?
PS 54 HILLSIDE is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.