Enrollment
264
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009902372
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE)
40-20 235TH ST, DOUGLASTON, NY 11363 · (718) 423-8535 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL264 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 95% of New York public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
11.5:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
74 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 18 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 18% larger than its 5th grade class (39).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
93.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
98.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 98 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.0% | 98.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 88.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New York's top 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 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE)
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (86.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) this school | 264 | 28.0% | 86.7% |
| PS 150 NEW YORK | 287 | 23.0% | 91.4% |
| CHARLES CAMPAGNE SCHOOL BETHPAGE | 354 | 27.1% | 69.3% |
| J FRED SPARKE SCHOOL LEVITTOWN | 323 | 33.1% | N/A |
| NORTHEAST SCHOOL ITHACA | 347 | 29.1% | 71.5% |
| PS 169 BAY TERRACE BAYSIDE | 406 | 32.5% | 64.9% |
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 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.7% | #71 of 2,335 | #9 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 98.0% | #33 of 2,342 ▲ 102 | #3 of 219 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #44 of 2,343 ▲ 60 | #6 of 220 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 264 | #2,172 of 2,585 | #217 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #1,050 of 2,338 | #53 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.0% | #139 of 2,388 | #23 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.0% | #2,024 of 2,534 | #222 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.7% | #1,232 of 1,757 | #139 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
264
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-1% since 2010-11, when it was 267
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 9.7:1
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 | 264 | 23 | 11.5:1 | 28% (74) |
| 2023-24 | 258 | 25 | 10.3:1 | 29% (76) |
| 2022-23 | 238 | 23 | 10.3:1 | 28% (67) |
| 2020-21 | 263 | 27 | 9.7:1 | 23% (60) |
| 2017-18 | 289 | 22 | 13.1:1 | 22% (64) |
| 2015-16 | 206 | 18 | 11.4:1 | 22% (46) |
| 2010-11 | 267 | 19 | 14.1:1 | 10% (28) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE).
About PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE)
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) is a small elementary school found in DOUGLASTON, New York. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 264 students. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 40% lower.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 operates 34 schools. Combined enrollment is 29,203 students.
The biggest share of students at PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE), 35%, is Asian. The rest of enrollment is 31% White, 23% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Asian share of Queens County's population at about 26%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) scores 72%.
There are about 11.5 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE), which has 23. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) is about 28%. That is 49 points below the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) outscored 95%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 22.0 points (86.7% versus 64.7%), a top-10% result in New York on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Queens County show median household income comes to about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) among them.
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) is about 0.6 miles from PS 94 DAVID D PORTER, its nearest public school. PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE)'s average proficiency of 86.7% compares with 79.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 263 to 264. The ratio was 9.7:1 in 2020-21 and 11.5:1 in 2024-25.
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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 #26
- FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,573 students
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,004 students
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,866 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,131 students
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMiddle · 1,104 students
Nearby schools
- PS 94 DAVID D PORTER0.6 mi · 353
- JHS 67 LOUIS PASTEUR0.9 mi · 999
- PS 41 CROCHERON1.1 mi · 445
- PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS1.2 mi · 818
- PS 221 NORTH HILLS SCHOOL (THE)1.2 mi · 504
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 2,866
Frequently asked questions
About PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE)What is the total enrollment at PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE)?
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 264 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) serve?
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) have?
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE)?
Student demographics at PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) are roughly 31% White, 23% Hispanic, 5% Black, 35% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) public or private?
PS 98 DOUGLASTON SCHOOL (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26.
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