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Enrollment
484
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012306360
WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
535 BRIAR PL, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691 · (718) 327-7091 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL484 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% 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
17.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
431 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 | 51 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
49%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
84.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +27.0pp since 2023
Math
90.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +29.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 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 27 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 29 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.0% | 90.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 61.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
67.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% 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 →
Schools most like WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (67.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 484 | 89.0% | 67.0% |
| SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 522 | 85.8% | 14.5% |
| PS/MS 31 WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON (THE) BRONX | 538 | 92.4% | 36.5% |
| PS 104 BAYS WATER (THE) FAR ROCKAWAY | 542 | 86.9% | 35.2% |
| PS 45 CLARENCE WITHERSPOON SOUTH OZONE PARK | 464 | 89.0% | 20.8% |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX BRONX | 472 | 84.3% | 71.2% |
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 WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #493 of 2,335 | #63 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #134 of 2,342 ▲ 743 | #21 of 219 ▲ 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #158 of 2,343 ▲ 439 | #24 of 220 ▲ 65 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 484 | #902 of 2,585 | #147 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #2,235 of 2,338 | #212 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.9% | #1,282 of 2,388 | #161 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.0% | #457 of 2,534 | #44 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #951 of 1,757 | #120 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
484
+13 (+3%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 484 | 28 | 17.3:1 | 89% (431) |
| 2023-24 | 493 | 31 | 15.9:1 | 88% (435) |
| 2022-23 | 435 | 29.3 | 14.8:1 | 82% (356) |
| 2020-21 | 471 | 36 | 13.1:1 | 84% (394) |
| 2017-18 | 557 | 39 | 14.3:1 | 89% (497) |
| 2015-16 | 547 | 35 | 15.6:1 | 90% (490) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This page covers WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school in FAR ROCKAWAY, New York. The school has 484 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 runs WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL along with 62 other schools, enrolling 39,209 students in total.
More than half of the students at WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic (64%). The rest of enrollment is 32% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Queens County's population at about 28%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 49%.
On staff are 28 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.3:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has more students per teacher. About 89% of students at WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is 77%.
Among New York public elementary schools, WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 86%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than predicted by 24.7 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 67.0%; the prediction is 42.2%.
The school is in Queens County, where the median household earns about $86,136 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Queens County with 391 other public schools.
CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest public school to WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 67.0% is above the 45.5% average for nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 3% rise, from 471 to 484. The ratio was 13.1:1 in 2020-21 and 17.3:1 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 FAR ROCKAWAY
- CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,218 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FAR ROCKAWAYElementary · 728 students
- ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 605 students
- PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 600 students
- PS 43Elementary · 574 students
- PS 104 BAYS WATER (THE)Elementary · 542 students
Nearby schools
- CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,218
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 311
- ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL0.3 mi · 605
- KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREPARATORY ACADEMY VI0.3 mi · 281
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY0.3 mi · 507
- PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 313
Frequently asked questions
About WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 484 students in grades PK-05.
Is WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 64% Hispanic, 32% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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