PS/MS 138 SUNRISE

PS/MS 138 SUNRISE operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in ROSEDALE, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29. Current enrollment sits at 554 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS/MS 138 SUNRISE sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 21,817 students. PS/MS 138 SUNRISE is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PS/MS 138 SUNRISE lists that the largest single group is Black, at 66% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 19% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% Native American, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PS/MS 138 SUNRISE has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, PS/MS 138 SUNRISE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.7%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Queens County put the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), PS/MS 138 SUNRISE is one campus in the mix.

SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS/MS 138 SUNRISE at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 61.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 764 students in 2018 compared to 554 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 81% to 66%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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