PS 56 HARRY EICHLER

Located at 86-10 114TH ST, in RICHMOND HILL, New York, PS 56 HARRY EICHLER is a small primary school that hosts 360 students (grades 2 through 5), operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 comprises 63 schools with combined enrollment of 39,209 students; PS 56 HARRY EICHLER is among them.

On the student-mix side, PS 56 HARRY EICHLER logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 25% Asian, 10% Black, 8% White, 4% Native American. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 56 HARRY EICHLER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 52.5%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Queens County) reports 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 56 HARRY EICHLER is one.

The closest other public school is PS 51, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 56 HARRY EICHLER ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.9%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 56 HARRY EICHLER has contracted 6%, going from 384 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 34% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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