Enrollment
378
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012302516
PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)
103-22 99TH ST, OZONE PARK, NY 11417 · (718) 323-1685 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 58% of New York public elementary schools
- B-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
14.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
320 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 41 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
62.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 54.0% |
% 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
49.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)
PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (49.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) this school | 378 | 84.7% | 49.4% |
| QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OZONE PARK | 376 | 81.9% | 70.1% |
| PS 56 HARRY EICHLER RICHMOND HILL | 360 | 82.2% | 52.5% |
| SCHOOL OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION (THE) BROOKLYN | 315 | 86.7% | 59.5% |
| PS 48 MAPLETON BROOKLYN | 487 | 87.5% | 51.7% |
| PS 583 BRONX | 436 | 87.8% | 53.1% |
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 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #1,186 of 2,335 | #149 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,004 of 2,342 ▲ 127 | #133 of 219 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,129 of 2,343 ▲ 96 | #148 of 220 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 378 | #1,494 of 2,585 | #184 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,995 of 2,338 | #166 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.8% | #373 of 2,388 | #57 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.7% | #624 of 2,534 | #78 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.3% | #739 of 1,757 | #102 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
378
-48 (-11%) vs 2020
-26% since 2010-11, when it was 510
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 378 | 25.7 | 14.7:1 | 85% (320) |
| 2023-24 | 360 | 26 | 13.8:1 | 84% (302) |
| 2022-23 | 376 | 28.7 | 13.1:1 | 77% (290) |
| 2020-21 | 426 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 75% (318) |
| 2017-18 | 457 | 35 | 13.1:1 | 71% (325) |
| 2015-16 | 496 | 32 | 15.5:1 | 49% (245) |
| 2010-11 | 510 | 38 | 13.4:1 | 82% (417) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE).
About PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)
PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school in OZONE PARK, New York, according to federal school records. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 378 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 is the local district for PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE). It runs 63 schools with 39,209 students.
Hispanic students make up 46% of enrollment at PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE), the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 33% Asian, 8% Native American, 6% Black, and 5% White. In Queens County overall, about 28% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 67, compared with 70 nationally.
PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) lists 25.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.7 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 85% of the student body. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 8 points.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) lands at B, ahead of 58% of New York public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) is 43.9%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 49.4%.
In Queens County, home to about 2,323,052 people, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) shares Queens County with 391 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES, is about 0.3 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) is 9th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Federal data place PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 378, down from 426 in 2020-21.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 #27
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
Other schools in OZONE PARK
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- HIGH SCHOOL-CONSTRUCTION TRADES ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTUREHigh · 1,074 students
- PS 63 OLD SOUTHElementary · 957 students
- JHS 202 ROBERT H GODDARDMiddle · 907 students
Nearby schools
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES0.3 mi · 1,610
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL0.3 mi · 1,459
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 2,400
- QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 376
- HIGH SCHOOL-CONSTRUCTION TRADES ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE0.5 mi · 1,074
- PS 63 OLD SOUTH0.5 mi · 957
Frequently asked questions
About PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)How large is PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)?
PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 378 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) serve?
PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) is approximately 14.7:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)?
Student demographics at PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) are roughly 5% White, 46% Hispanic, 6% Black, 33% Asian.
Is PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) public or private?
PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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