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Enrollment
806
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29·NCES 360010102432
PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY
107-25 WREN PL, JAMAICA, NY 11433 · (718) 526-4884 · Queens County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL806 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest 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
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
667 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 49 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 92 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 67 | 8% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 30% larger than its 8th grade class (67).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
36.4%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 36.4% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 41.0% |
% 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
38.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY
PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY's state test result (38.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY this school | 806 | 82.8% | 38.5% |
| PS 121 THROOP BRONX | 601 | 83.5% | 43.8% |
| PS 160 WALTER FRANCIS BISHOP JAMAICA | 661 | 86.5% | 57.0% |
| PS 249 CATON (THE) BROOKLYN | 663 | 83.9% | 76.6% |
| GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL II JAMAICA | 810 | 80.6% | 45.0% |
| STATEN ISLAND SCHOOL OF CIVIC LEADERSHIP STATEN ISLAND | 843 | 79.0% | 66.5% |
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/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.5% | #1,697 of 2,335 | #189 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.4% | #1,954 of 2,342 ▼ 317 | #203 of 219 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,731 of 2,343 ▼ 505 | #193 of 220 ▼ 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 806 | #143 of 2,585 | #42 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #1,635 of 2,338 | #105 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.4% | #347 of 2,388 | #50 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.8% | #687 of 2,534 | #96 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.4% | #487 of 606 | #47 of 51 |
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
806
+8 (+1%) vs 2020
-4% since 2010-11, when it was 841
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 806 | 61.9 | 13.0:1 | 83% (667) |
| 2023-24 | 843 | 65.8 | 12.8:1 | 82% (690) |
| 2022-23 | 814 | 53.6 | 15.2:1 | 78% (638) |
| 2020-21 | 798 | 63 | 12.7:1 | 80% (638) |
| 2017-18 | 787 | 57 | 13.8:1 | 78% (612) |
| 2015-16 | 762 | 54 | 14.1:1 | 63% (478) |
| 2010-11 | 841 | 58 | 14.5:1 | 90% (756) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY.
About PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY
In JAMAICA, New York, PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY is a large elementary school. It teaches 806 students in pre-K through 8. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 operates 46 schools. Combined enrollment is 21,817 students.
No group is above 50% at PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY; the largest is Hispanic, at 42%. The rest of enrollment is 36% Black, 15% Asian, 4% Native American, and 3% Pacific Islander. Among all residents of Queens County, the Hispanic share is about 28%. The diversity index for PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY is 67%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY comes to 61.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.0:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 12.8:1. On the income side, 83% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY lands at C, ahead of 34% of New York public elementary schools.
PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 38.5% and a predicted 44.6%.
Census data for Queens County show the median household earns about $86,136 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 392 public schools and about 268,205 students.
Of the public schools around it, PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY is closest to EMERSON SCHOOL (THE), about 0.3 miles away. PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 50.2% on proficiency, and PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY is below that at 38.5%.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 806, close to the 798 recorded in 2020-21.
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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 #29
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 894 students
- IS 238 SUSAN B ANTHONY ACADEMYMiddle · 820 students
- PATHWAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 818 students
- PS 131 ABIGAIL ADAMSElementary · 754 students
- PS 33 EDWARD M FUNKElementary · 735 students
Other schools in JAMAICA
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL IIElementary · 810 students
Nearby schools
- EMERSON SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 284
- YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY0.4 mi · 596
- JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY0.4 mi · 354
- PS/IS 2680.5 mi · 696
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III0.6 mi · 498
- PS 40 SAMUEL HUNTINGTON0.7 mi · 399
Frequently asked questions
About PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEYHow many students attend PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY?
PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY enrolls approximately 806 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY serve?
PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY is approximately 13.0:1 (62 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY?
At PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY, the student body is approximately 1% White, 42% Hispanic, 36% Black, 15% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY in?
PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29.
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