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Enrollment
758
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010002376
PS 99 KEW GARDENS
82-37 KEW GARDENS RD, KEW GARDENS, NY 11415 · (718) 544-4343 · Queens County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL758 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% 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
14.1:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
464 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 129 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 129 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 120 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 7% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (129) is 130% larger than its 6th grade class (56).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
75.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
80.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 81.0% |
% 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
70.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 99 KEW GARDENS
PS 99 KEW GARDENS's state test result (70.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 99 KEW GARDENS this school | 758 | 61.2% | 70.2% |
| PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN LONG ISLAND CITY | 825 | 62.3% | 69.5% |
| PS 150 LONG ISLAND CITY | 657 | 58.8% | 71.1% |
| OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL ASTORIA | 681 | 61.2% | 65.6% |
| PS 33 CHELSEA PREP NEW YORK | 606 | 59.9% | 60.7% |
| PS 17 HENRY DAVID THOREAU LONG ISLAND CITY | 610 | 65.4% | 57.4% |
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 99 KEW GARDENS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #395 of 2,335 | #51 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #349 of 2,342 ▼ 77 | #50 of 219 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #367 of 2,343 ▼ 31 | #47 of 220 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 758 | #191 of 2,585 | #52 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #1,889 of 2,338 | #151 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.0% | #141 of 2,388 | #24 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.2% | #1,139 of 2,534 | #190 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.5% | #1,505 of 1,757 | #159 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
758
+61 (+9%) vs 2020
-5% since 2010-11, when it was 801
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 758 | 53.8 | 14.1:1 | 61% (464) |
| 2023-24 | 744 | 51.7 | 14.4:1 | 60% (448) |
| 2022-23 | 699 | 50 | 14.0:1 | 60% (416) |
| 2020-21 | 697 | 48 | 14.5:1 | 55% (381) |
| 2017-18 | 794 | 54 | 14.7:1 | 66% (528) |
| 2015-16 | 835 | 57 | 14.7:1 | 67% (557) |
| 2010-11 | 801 | 52 | 15.4:1 | 71% (571) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 99 KEW GARDENS.
About PS 99 KEW GARDENS
PS 99 KEW GARDENS, located in KEW GARDENS, New York, is a large elementary school. A federal count lists 758 students at the school, in kindergarten through 6. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 71% bigger than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 has a total of 50 schools and 36,340 students, PS 99 KEW GARDENS among them.
The most common group at PS 99 KEW GARDENS is Hispanic students, at 42%. The school is also 23% Asian, 21% White, 6% Black, and 6% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 28%. The school's diversity index is 72%, meaning two students picked at random have a 72% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teacher staffing is 53.8 full-time equivalents, or about 14.1 students per teacher. This ratio sits 1.2 above the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 61%. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is 77%.
PS 99 KEW GARDENS is graded A by allk12, scoring above 88% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for PS 99 KEW GARDENS is +17.7 points: 70.2% actual, 52.5% predicted.
Queens County has these Census figures: the median household income is $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Queens County is home to 392 public schools and about 268,205 public school students.
The nearest public school is PS 54 HILLSIDE, at about 0.6 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. PS 99 KEW GARDENS comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place PS 99 KEW GARDENS in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has grown by 61 students since 2020-21, to 758.
Questions about school safety, transportation, and start times can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Nearby schools
- PS 54 HILLSIDE0.6 mi · 462
- PS 164 QUEENS VALLEY0.7 mi · 527
- PS 117 J KELD/BRIARWOOD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 775
- NORTH QUEENS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 117
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK0.8 mi · 1,265
- PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS0.9 mi · 605
Frequently asked questions
About PS 99 KEW GARDENSHow large is PS 99 KEW GARDENS?
PS 99 KEW GARDENS enrolls approximately 758 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does PS 99 KEW GARDENS serve?
PS 99 KEW GARDENS serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 99 KEW GARDENS?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 99 KEW GARDENS is approximately 14.1:1 (54 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PS 99 KEW GARDENS?
PS 99 KEW GARDENS reports a student body of 21% White, 42% Hispanic, 6% Black, 23% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is PS 99 KEW GARDENS in?
PS 99 KEW GARDENS is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.