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Enrollment
504
Elementary
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010206554
WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)
39-07 57TH ST, FLUSHING, NY 11377 · (718) 592-3300 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL504 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% 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.
- 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
16.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
357 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 48 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
69.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 69.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 65.0% |
% 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
63.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% 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 WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)
WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (63.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) this school | 504 | 70.8% | 63.6% |
| S.T.A.R. LEADERSHIP ACADEMY RICHMOND HILL | 507 | 72.0% | 51.5% |
| HECTOR FIGUEROA SCHOOL (THE) WOODSIDE | 455 | 71.6% | 72.1% |
| PS 164 QUEENS VALLEY FLUSHING | 527 | 68.9% | 59.8% |
| PS 154 FLUSHING | 542 | 77.1% | 60.3% |
| PS 11 KATHRYN PHELAN WOODSIDE | 689 | 74.5% | 57.9% |
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 WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.6% | #612 of 2,335 | #89 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #732 of 2,342 ▼ 11 | #101 of 219 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #515 of 2,343 ▼ 156 | #70 of 220 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 504 | #805 of 2,585 | #142 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #2,188 of 2,338 | #201 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #459 of 2,388 | #69 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.8% | #967 of 2,534 | #159 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +92.4% | #20 of 606 | #9 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
504
+26 (+5%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 504 | 31 | 16.3:1 | 71% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 493 | 29 | 17.0:1 | 71% (351) |
| 2022-23 | 492 | 36.7 | 13.4:1 | 73% (361) |
| 2020-21 | 478 | 29 | 16.5:1 | 74% (352) |
| 2017-18 | 262 | 18 | 14.6:1 | 81% (212) |
| 2015-16 | 123 | 8 | 15.4:1 | 79% (97) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE).
About WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)
The public elementary school WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) is located in FLUSHING, New York. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 504 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 counts 35,337 students in its 53 schools, and WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) is one of them.
Hispanic students make up 46% of enrollment at WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE), the largest share of any group. The rest of enrollment is 33% Asian, 14% White, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Queens County's population at about 28%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 65%.
On staff are 31 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.3:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 71%.
On the allk12 Grade, WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) lands at A-, ahead of 80% of New York public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) is 48.9%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 63.6%.
Queens County is the school's county. There, 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%. WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) shares Queens County with 391 other public schools.
PS 11 KATHRYN PHELAN is about 0.2 miles from WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE), the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) ranks 3rd in a group of 8 nearby schools.
Federal data place WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 504 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 478.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE). Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Other schools in FLUSHING
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
Nearby schools
- PS 11 KATHRYN PHELAN0.2 mi · 689
- MOTION PICTURE TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 177
- GOTHAM TECH HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 266
- PS 152 GWENDOLINE N ALLEYNE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 628
- MS 4290.6 mi · 252
- HECTOR FIGUEROA SCHOOL (THE)0.6 mi · 455
Frequently asked questions
About WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)How many students attend WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)?
WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 504 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) serve?
WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) is approximately 16.3:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)?
At WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE), the student body is approximately 14% White, 46% Hispanic, 1% Black, 33% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)?
WOODSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.