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Enrollment
770
Elementary
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010202289
PS 70
30-45 42ND ST, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11103 · (718) 728-4646 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL770 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 64% 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.
- 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
13.0:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
577 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 100 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 120 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 124 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
58.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
62.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 58 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
53.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 70
PS 70's state test result (53.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 70 this school | 770 | 74.9% | 53.8% |
| PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY MASPETH | 764 | 69.6% | 55.0% |
| PS 91 RICHARD ARKWRIGHT GLENDALE | 771 | 74.2% | 41.9% |
| PS/IS 30 MARY WHITE OVINGTON BROOKLYN | 849 | 82.6% | 55.1% |
| PS 2 ALFRED ZIMBERG EAST ELMHURST | 583 | 70.3% | 56.5% |
| PS 232 LINDENWOOD HOWARD BEACH | 831 | 67.6% | 48.4% |
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 70 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.8% | #1,011 of 2,335 | #126 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,000 of 2,342 ▲ 63 | #132 of 219 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,019 of 2,343 ▼ 110 | #133 of 220 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 770 | #181 of 2,585 | #48 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #1,620 of 2,338 | #100 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #505 of 2,388 | #76 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.9% | #897 of 2,534 | #136 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.3% | #998 of 1,757 | #127 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
770
-29 (-4%) vs 2020
-30% since 2010-11, when it was 1,099
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 770 | 59.3 | 13.0:1 | 75% (577) |
| 2023-24 | 809 | 53.2 | 15.2:1 | 76% (616) |
| 2022-23 | 793 | 48 | 16.5:1 | 76% (602) |
| 2020-21 | 799 | 48 | 16.6:1 | 81% (644) |
| 2017-18 | 878 | 60 | 14.6:1 | 83% (725) |
| 2015-16 | 1,005 | 61 | 16.5:1 | 81% (815) |
| 2010-11 | 1,099 | 67 | 16.4:1 | 83% (907) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 70.
About PS 70
PS 70 is a large elementary school located in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York. Enrollment totals 770 students across pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 74% larger than that mark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 counts 53 schools and 35,337 students, including PS 70.
No group is above 50% at PS 70; the largest is Hispanic, at 43%. The rest of enrollment is 40% White, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. Among all residents of Queens County, the Hispanic share is about 28%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 64%.
Its ratio of 13.0:1 is based on 59.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is similar, at 12.8:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 75%. The figure for public schools in Queens County is close, at 77%.
PS 70 earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 64% of New York public elementary schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 47.4%. PS 70 scores 53.8%.
American Community Survey estimates for Queens County show that median household income comes to about $86,136, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Queens County counts 392 public schools with about 268,205 students.
The closest school to PS 70 is IS 10 HORACE GREELEY, located about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts PS 70 at 5th of 8.
The federal government classifies PS 70's location as City: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 4%. The ratio was 16.6:1 in 2020-21 and 13.0:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to PS 70 can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Other schools in LONG ISLAND CITY
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Nearby schools
- IS 10 HORACE GREELEY0.2 mi · 596
- URBAN DOVE TEAM CHARTER SCHOOL III0.3 mi · 55
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,996
- PS 151 MARY D CARTER0.4 mi · 334
- ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS0.6 mi · 50
- PS 2340.6 mi · 465
Frequently asked questions
About PS 70How large is PS 70?
PS 70 enrolls approximately 770 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 70 serve?
PS 70 serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 70?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 70 is approximately 13.0:1 (59 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 70?
At PS 70, the student body is approximately 40% White, 43% Hispanic, 3% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is PS 70 public or private?
PS 70 is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.