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What's the one class at WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
432
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012306106
WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL
140 BEACH 112TH ST, ROCKAWAY PARK, NY 11694 · (718) 634-1344 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL432 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of New York public elementary schools
- A-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
10.3:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
300 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 | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
73.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp 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 73 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 68.0% |
% 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
65.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% 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 WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL
WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL's state test result (65.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL this school | 432 | 69.4% | 65.5% |
| PS 75 EMILY DICKINSON NEW YORK | 453 | 67.3% | 55.6% |
| PS 145 BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 490 | 75.9% | 37.0% |
| HORIZON-ON-THE-HUDSON SCHOOL NEWBURGH | 447 | 62.2% | 28.8% |
| PS/MS 200 MAGNET SCHOOL-GLOBAL STUDI FLUSHING | 489 | 69.5% | 57.9% |
| PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 340 | 75.0% | 62.0% |
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 WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #547 of 2,335 | #72 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #583 of 2,342 ▲ 34 | #84 of 219 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #454 of 2,343 ▲ 60 | #61 of 220 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 432 | #1,182 of 2,585 | #171 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #552 of 2,338 | #33 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.6% | #284 of 2,388 | #41 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.4% | #993 of 2,534 | #165 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.6% | #925 of 1,757 | #118 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
432
-49 (-10%) vs 2020
+22% since 2010-11, when it was 354
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 432 | 41.8 | 10.3:1 | 69% (300) |
| 2023-24 | 419 | 41.8 | 10.0:1 | 71% (299) |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 39.1 | 11.3:1 | 68% (300) |
| 2020-21 | 481 | 42 | 11.4:1 | 65% (314) |
| 2017-18 | 500 | 42 | 11.9:1 | 73% (364) |
| 2015-16 | 491 | 37 | 13.3:1 | 78% (385) |
| 2010-11 | 354 | 29 | 12.2:1 | 89% (316) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL.
About WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL
WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL serves students in ROCKAWAY PARK, New York, as a medium-sized elementary school. Enrollment is 432 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 has 63 schools; together they serve 39,209 students.
Hispanic students are the largest group at WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL, with 47% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 24% Black, 19% White, 5% multiracial, and 5% Asian. County-wide, 28% of Queens County residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.3:1 at WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL, with 41.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 69% of enrollment.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 49.5% for WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL. The school posts 65.5%, 16.0 points above the prediction.
WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL is located in Queens County, where median household income is about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 392 public schools in Queens County, with a combined enrollment of about 268,205.
The next-closest public school is WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL's average proficiency of 65.5% compares with 46.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL had 481 students in 2020-21 and 432 in 2024-25, a 10% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.4:1 in 2020-21 to 10.3:1 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 #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 ROCKAWAY PARK
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
- PS/MS 114 BELLE HARBORElementary · 638 students
- ROCKAWAY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 287 students
- ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITYHigh · 232 students
- UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE HUMANITIES IVHigh · 189 students
Nearby schools
- WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP0.1 mi · 148
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMY0.5 mi · 1,184
- ROCKAWAY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 287
- ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY0.7 mi · 232
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCH0.7 mi · 1,180
- UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE HUMANITIES IV0.7 mi · 189
Frequently asked questions
About WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL?
WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL enrolls approximately 432 students in grades PK-05.
Is WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL.
How diverse is WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL?
WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL reports a student body of 19% White, 47% Hispanic, 24% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL public or private?
WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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