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Enrollment
541
Elementary
DISTRICT 789 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009802337
PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE
67-54 80TH ST, MIDDLE VILLAGE, NY 11379 · (718) 326-8243 · Queens County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL541 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of New York public elementary schools
- B+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
12.1:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
386 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 45 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 66 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 23% smaller than its 8th grade class (66).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
72.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
70.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 69.0% |
% 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
64.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE
PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE's state test result (64.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE this school | 541 | 71.3% | 64.4% |
| ACE ACADEMY FOR SCHOLARS AT THE GERALDINE FERRARO CAMPUS RIDGEWOOD | 573 | 66.7% | 58.9% |
| PS 88 SENECA RIDGEWOOD | 692 | 73.6% | 47.9% |
| PS 14 SENATOR JOHN CALANDRA BRONX | 718 | 71.6% | 48.6% |
| FAMILY SCHOOL 32 YONKERS | 562 | 67.1% | 35.7% |
| PS 71 FOREST RIDGEWOOD | 468 | 80.1% | 45.5% |
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 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #580 of 2,335 | #81 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #696 of 2,342 ▼ 113 | #94 of 219 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #450 of 2,343 ▼ 93 | #58 of 220 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 541 | #667 of 2,585 | #126 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #1,308 of 2,338 | #67 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #977 of 2,388 | #134 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.3% | #958 of 2,534 | #154 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.0% | #1,087 of 1,757 | #132 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
541
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
-5% since 2010-11, when it was 569
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 541 | 44.8 | 12.1:1 | 71% (386) |
| 2023-24 | 517 | 45.6 | 11.3:1 | 72% (373) |
| 2022-23 | 520 | 44 | 11.8:1 | 67% (349) |
| 2020-21 | 558 | 43 | 13.0:1 | 60% (337) |
| 2017-18 | 608 | 44 | 13.8:1 | 64% (389) |
| 2015-16 | 584 | 45 | 13.0:1 | 63% (366) |
| 2010-11 | 569 | 50 | 11.4:1 | 70% (401) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE.
About PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE
PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE is a mid-sized elementary school in New York, located in MIDDLE VILLAGE. The school covers pre-K through 8 and reported 541 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 22% above that mark.
The district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, operates 57 schools serving 48,008 students.
About 61% of the student body at PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE is Hispanic. Other groups make up 25% White and 11% Asian. County-wide, 28% of Queens County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 56%.
Its staff includes 44.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.1 students per teacher. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is 0.8 students per teacher. Roughly 71% of students at PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 81% of New York public elementary schools.
PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE is 15.7 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (64.4% versus 48.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
The school's county is Queens County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE among them.
PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE's closest public school neighbor is PS/IS 119 GLENDALE (THE), about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE is 5th of 8 on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 3% decline took enrollment from 558 in 2020-21 to 541 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 #24
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCIMiddle · 2,131 students
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,581 students
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTETElementary · 1,506 students
Other schools in MIDDLE VILLAGE
- PS 49 DOROTHY BONAWIT KOLEElementary · 1,224 students
- PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEYElementary · 631 students
- MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOLMiddle · 468 students
Nearby schools
- PS/IS 119 GLENDALE (THE)0.5 mi · 1,213
- PS 49 DOROTHY BONAWIT KOLE0.6 mi · 1,224
- PS/IS 113 ANTHONY J PRANZO0.7 mi · 771
- PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY0.8 mi · 631
- PS 174 WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT0.8 mi · 545
- PS 2330.9 mi · 514
Frequently asked questions
About PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGEHow large is PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE?
PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE enrolls approximately 541 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE serve?
PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE?
At PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE, the student body is approximately 25% White, 61% Hispanic, 1% Black, 11% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE?
PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.