WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL

WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL is one of the average-sized elementary schools in ROCKAWAY PARK, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, with 432 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, which oversees 63 schools and 39,209 students, WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 24% Black, 19% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate median household income runs about $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 500 (now 432). Class-load math has fell: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.