Enrollment
376
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012306525
QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
90-07 101ST ST, OZONE PARK, NY 11416 · (718) 558-7088 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL376 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
308 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
80.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
70.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
376
-2 (-1%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 12.2:1
% White
5%
was 12%
% Hispanic
52%
was 49%
% Black
5%
was 7%
% Asian
31%
was 18%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of modestly sized scale in OZONE PARK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, teacheing 376 students in grades pre-K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 comprises 63 schools with combined enrollment of 39,209 students; QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
On the student-mix side, QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 31% Asian, 5% White, 5% Black, 4% Native American. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 44.9%; QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 70.1%, +25.2 points above that line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Queens County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.
QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 378 students in 2018 to 376 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment rose from 18% to 31% over that span.
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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 #27
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
Other schools in OZONE PARK
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- HIGH SCHOOL-CONSTRUCTION TRADES ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTUREHigh · 1,074 students
- PS 63 OLD SOUTHElementary · 957 students
- JHS 202 ROBERT H GODDARDMiddle · 907 students
Nearby schools
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL0.2 mi · 1,459
- PS 64 JOSEPH P ADDABBO0.4 mi · 493
- PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 378
- PS 63 OLD SOUTH0.5 mi · 957
- NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY0.6 mi · 361
- PS 60 WOODHAVEN0.6 mi · 957
Frequently asked questions
About QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 376 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 5% White, 52% Hispanic, 5% Black, 31% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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