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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD administration to hear?
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Enrollment
519
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009902622
PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD
189-10 RADNOR RD, JAMAICA, NY 11423 · (718) 464-5763 · Queens County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL519 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 56% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
10.1:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
273 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 40 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 64 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 31% smaller than its 8th grade class (64).
Student demographics
67%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
54.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
58.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 58.1% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 58.1% |
% 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
53.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 178 HOLLISWOOD
PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD's state test result (53.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD this school | 519 | 52.6% | 53.8% |
| PS 8 SHIRLEE SOLOMON STATEN ISLAND | 542 | 49.4% | 89.8% |
| MARYVALE PRIMARY SCHOOL CHEEKTOWAGA | 568 | 53.0% | N/A |
| PS 29 BARDWELL STATEN ISLAND | 579 | 56.3% | 63.1% |
| PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 694 | 51.3% | 72.2% |
| PS 85 JUDGE CHARLES VALLONE LONG ISLAND CITY | 535 | 48.8% | 65.8% |
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 178 HOLLISWOOD ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.8% | #1,010 of 2,335 | #125 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #1,124 of 2,342 ▼ 137 | #145 of 219 ▼ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,172 of 2,343 ▼ 596 | #151 of 220 ▼ 67 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 519 | #737 of 2,585 | #136 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #476 of 2,338 | #25 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.1% | #357 of 2,388 | #53 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.6% | #1,331 of 2,534 | #201 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.8% | #1,289 of 1,757 | #141 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
519
+4 (+1%) vs 2020
+3% since 2010-11, when it was 505
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 519 | 51.4 | 10.1:1 | 53% (273) |
| 2023-24 | 528 | 51.1 | 10.3:1 | 48% (256) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 49.8 | 10.3:1 | 49% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 41 | 12.6:1 | 41% (209) |
| 2017-18 | 563 | 35 | 16.1:1 | 37% (209) |
| 2015-16 | 562 | 35 | 16.1:1 | 40% (224) |
| 2010-11 | 505 | 30 | 16.8:1 | 45% (228) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD.
About PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD
JAMAICA, New York, is home to PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD, a mid-sized elementary school. It reports enrollment of 519 students in pre-K through 8.
The 34 schools of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26, including PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD, enroll 29,203 students.
About 50% of students at PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD are White, the largest single group. The rest of enrollment is 23% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 3% multiracial. Among all residents of Queens County, the White share is about 26%. A diversity index of 67% means there is a 67% chance two randomly chosen students at PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD are from different groups.
The school's 51.4 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD, 53% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Queens County is 77%.
PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 56% of New York public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD is 1.9 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
For the population of Queens County, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD shares Queens County with 391 other public schools.
Among nearby public schools, IS 238 SUSAN B ANTHONY ACADEMY is closest at about 0.8 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD. PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD places 5th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 519, close to the 515 recorded in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 10.1 students per teacher, compared with 12.6 in 2020-21.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
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
- IS 238 SUSAN B ANTHONY ACADEMY0.8 mi · 820
- PS 26 RUFUS KING0.8 mi · 548
- PS 35 NATHANIEL WOODHULL0.9 mi · 626
- CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY0.9 mi · 359
- PS 95 EASTWOOD1.0 mi · 1,103
- PS 131 ABIGAIL ADAMS1.0 mi · 754
Frequently asked questions
About PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOODHow many students attend PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD?
PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD enrolls approximately 519 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD serve?
PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD have?
PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1.
How diverse is PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD?
PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD reports a student body of 50% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% Black, 23% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD?
PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.