PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY

Set in JAMAICA, New York, PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY is a large elementary campus, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29. It works with 806 students across grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 82% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 21,817 students. PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY lists that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 36% Black, 15% Asian, 4% Native American, 3% Pacific Islander. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of -6.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Queens County put median household earnings sit near $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

Nearest neighbor: EMERSON SCHOOL (THE), around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.2%.

PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 787 students in 2018 compared to 806 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 55% to 36% over that span.

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