PS 94 DAVID D PORTER

PS 94 DAVID D PORTER, a tight-knit elementary-level community in LITTLE NECK, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26, instructs 353 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

PS 94 DAVID D PORTER is one of 34 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26, a district that caters to 29,203 students overall.

On demographics, PS 94 DAVID D PORTER lists that 74% of the student body identifies as Asian. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 7% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 94 DAVID D PORTER higher than the state norm the norm. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 94 DAVID D PORTER ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 56.0%; PS 94 DAVID D PORTER posts 91.2%, +35.1 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Queens County shows median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), PS 94 DAVID D PORTER is one campus in the mix.

PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 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 94 DAVID D PORTER ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 80.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 326 students in 2018 compared to 353 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 57% to 74% across the same window.

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