Public school / Primary
Ps 2 Alfred Zimberg
East Elmhurst, New York
- NCES ID
- 360010202045
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ps 2 Alfred Zimberg is a public primary school in East Elmhurst, New York, run by New York City Geographic District #30. It enrols 569 students — the 29642nd largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
569
Teachers
41.0
Students per teacher
13.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
71.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within New York City Geographic District #30
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1William Cullen Bryant High School1,971 students
- 2Long Island City High School1,924 students
- 3Is 227 Louis Armstrong1,528 students
- 4Is 145 Joseph Pulitzer1,513 students
- 5Academy of American Studies1,363 students
- 6Ps 122 Mamie Fay1,155 students
- 7Ps 127 Aerospace Science Magnet School1,056 students
- 8Is 141 Steinway (the)1,049 students
- Enrollment+25.6%
- Teachers+10.8%
- Students per teacher+20.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+23.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory