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Enrollment
692
Elementary
DISTRICT 789 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009802340
PS 88 SENECA
60-85 CATALPA AVE, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385 · (718) 821-8121 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL692 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% 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.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
13.5:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
509 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 67 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 116 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 12 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (106).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
54.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
56.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 53.0% |
% 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
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 88 SENECA
PS 88 SENECA's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 88 SENECA this school | 692 | 73.6% | 47.9% |
| PS 14 SENATOR JOHN CALANDRA BRONX | 718 | 71.6% | 48.6% |
| PS 91 RICHARD ARKWRIGHT GLENDALE | 771 | 74.2% | 41.9% |
| PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE MIDDLE VILLAGE | 541 | 71.3% | 64.4% |
| LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBERTY | 664 | 66.9% | 28.4% |
| BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FALLSBURG | 841 | 76.2% | 22.8% |
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 88 SENECA ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #1,257 of 2,335 | #154 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,217 of 2,342 ▼ 44 | #152 of 219 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,170 of 2,343 ▲ 150 | #149 of 220 ▲ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 692 | #279 of 2,585 | #68 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #1,765 of 2,338 | #133 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.4% | #1,087 of 2,388 | #145 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.6% | #922 of 2,534 | #146 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.4% | #385 of 1,757 | #52 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
692
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
-35% since 2010-11, when it was 1,065
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 692 | 51.2 | 13.5:1 | 74% (509) |
| 2023-24 | 687 | 47 | 14.6:1 | 77% (527) |
| 2022-23 | 662 | 42.2 | 15.7:1 | 75% (499) |
| 2020-21 | 703 | 51 | 13.8:1 | 76% (533) |
| 2017-18 | 940 | 69 | 13.6:1 | 75% (708) |
| 2015-16 | 1,068 | 70 | 15.3:1 | 72% (773) |
| 2010-11 | 1,065 | 84 | 12.7:1 | 72% (769) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 88 SENECA.
About PS 88 SENECA
PS 88 SENECA is a high-enrollment elementary school that serves part of RIDGEWOOD, New York. The school enrolls 692 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
PS 88 SENECA sits within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, which has 57 schools and 48,008 students.
PS 88 SENECA's enrollment is 63% Hispanic. Next come 25% White, 8% Asian, and 2% multiracial. That compares with about 28% Hispanic among all Queens County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 88 SENECA belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 53%.
The school has about 13.5 students per teacher and 51.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in New York average about 12.8:1, a similar figure. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 74%. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is about the same, 77%.
PS 88 SENECA is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 51% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with PS 88 SENECA's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 47.9%. PS 88 SENECA scores 47.9%, within a point of that line.
In the county around the school, Queens County, median household income is about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. A total of 392 public schools operate in Queens County, serving about 268,205 students.
The school nearest to PS 88 SENECA is IS 93 RIDGEWOOD, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Within five miles of PS 88 SENECA, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, PS 88 SENECA places 2nd out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 703 to 692.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 #24
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCIMiddle · 2,131 students
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,581 students
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTETElementary · 1,506 students
Other schools in RIDGEWOOD
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- IS 93 RIDGEWOODMiddle · 954 students
- ROBERT E PEARY SCHOOLElementary · 581 students
- ACE ACADEMY FOR SCHOLARS AT THE GERALDINE FERRARO CAMPUSElementary · 573 students
- JOSEPH F QUINN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL 77Middle · 569 students
- PS 71 FORESTElementary · 468 students
Nearby schools
- IS 93 RIDGEWOOD0.4 mi · 954
- JOSEPH F QUINN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL 770.4 mi · 569
- PS 2390.5 mi · 414
- PS 68 CAMBRIDGE0.5 mi · 455
- ROBERT E PEARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 581
- MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 468
Frequently asked questions
About PS 88 SENECAWhat is the total enrollment at PS 88 SENECA?
PS 88 SENECA enrolls approximately 692 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 88 SENECA an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 88 SENECA is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 88 SENECA?
Approximately 13.5:1 students per teacher at PS 88 SENECA.
How diverse is PS 88 SENECA?
PS 88 SENECA reports a student body of 25% White, 63% Hispanic, 1% Black, 8% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 88 SENECA?
PS 88 SENECA is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.