PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)

PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in OZONE PARK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, hosting 378 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, which oversees 63 schools and 39,209 students, PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 33% Asian, 8% Native American, 6% Black, 5% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Queens County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Queens County put the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) is one.

Nearest neighbor: MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE). On composite proficiency, PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE) comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 457 students in 2018 compared to 378 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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