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How has QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
590
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010006564
QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)
88-08 164TH ST, JAMAICA, NY 11432 · (718) 558-6220 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL590 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 63% 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.
- A-Beats 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
15.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
527 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 | 34 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
61.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
61.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 61.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 51.0% |
% 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
51.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)
QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)'s state test result (51.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) this school | 590 | 89.3% | 51.2% |
| PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY BROOKLYN | 491 | 89.8% | 71.1% |
| PS 583 BRONX | 436 | 87.8% | 53.1% |
| PS 36 UNIONPORT BRONX | 660 | 88.8% | 45.2% |
| PS 107 THOMAS A DOOLEY FLUSHING | 806 | 83.9% | 48.3% |
| PS 163 BATH BEACH BROOKLYN | 621 | 84.7% | 82.1% |
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 QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.2% | #1,111 of 2,335 | #142 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #1,031 of 2,342 ▲ 208 | #134 of 219 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #884 of 2,343 ▲ 137 | #120 of 220 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 590 | #502 of 2,585 | #98 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #2,145 of 2,338 | #196 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #543 of 2,388 | #82 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.3% | #441 of 2,534 | #42 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +87.3% | #24 of 606 | #10 of 51 |
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
590
-13 (-2%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 590 | 37.4 | 15.8:1 | 89% (527) |
| 2023-24 | 599 | 38.6 | 15.5:1 | 90% (538) |
| 2022-23 | 585 | 32.6 | 17.9:1 | 86% (505) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 39 | 15.5:1 | 85% (512) |
| 2017-18 | 315 | 22 | 14.3:1 | 88% (278) |
| 2015-16 | 106 | 7 | 15.1:1 | 81% (86) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE).
About QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)
In JAMAICA, New York, part of Queens County, QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) is an elementary school. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 590 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 33% bigger than that mark.
A total of 50 schools make up NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, with 36,340 students enrolled.
About 42% of students at QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) are Hispanic, the largest single group. It is also 42% Asian, 11% Black, and 3% Native American. Queens County's residents are about 28% Hispanic, 14 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 63, compared with 70 nationally.
QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) lists 37.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 15.8 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 89% of the student body. The 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 12 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) lands at B, ahead of 63% of New York public elementary schools.
The model predicts 42.1% for a school in New York with QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)'s free or reduced-price lunch share. QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) posts 51.2%.
The school's county is Queens County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) shares Queens County with 391 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) is closest to MS 358, less than a tenth of a mile away. QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) ranks 4th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 51.2% against a local average of 48.1%.
NCES assigns QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 603 in 2020-21 and 590 in 2024-25.
The QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 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
- MS 3580.0 mi · 345
- QUEENS SATELLITE HIGH SCHOOL FOR OPPORTUNITY0.1 mi · 187
- NEW DAWN CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL II0.2 mi · 375
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 2,298
- PS 860.3 mi · 689
- PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH0.3 mi · 810
Frequently asked questions
About QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)How large is QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)?
QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) enrolls approximately 590 students in grades PK-05.
Is QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) have?
QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)?
At QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE), the student body is approximately 2% White, 42% Hispanic, 11% Black, 42% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)?
QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.