Ps 32 State Street, Flushing NY - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Ps 32 State Street

PS 32 State Street is a regular public elementary school in Flushing, Queens, serving kindergarten through fifth grade. The school sits in a neighborhood that mixes dense commercial downtown corridors with quiet residential blocks, and it draws from one of the city's most demographically diverse areas.

The school enrollment is moderate in size for its grade band, with fairly balanced cohorts across the lower grades and a slightly larger fourth-grade class. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic profile of the surrounding community. The student body is predominantly Asian, with a meaningful share of Hispanic students and smaller representations of other racial and ethnic groups. The data does not provide information on English learner enrollment or special education identification rates, so a parent may want to look into those specifics with the school directly.

In math proficiency, the school's fourth grade stands out with strong results; third grade and fifth grade perform solidly but somewhat below fourth grade. In English language arts, fourth and fifth grades show comparable proficiency to their math performance, while third grade trails slightly. Science proficiency in fifth grade, the only grade tested, is lower than the school's math and ELA results. Across the board, student participation in state testing is very high. Overall, the school's proficiency index places it above the midpoint among Queens County districts, meaning its academic performance ranks in the upper half of the county's schools.

Flushing itself is on a growth trajectory. Downtown is a dense, multilingual commercial hub with the largest concentrations of Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, Thai, and Bosnian and Herzegovinian populations in New York City, shaped by small businesses, retail, and offices. Several quiet residential sub-neighborhoods nearby, like Broadway-Flushing and Murray Hill, feature single-family homes and tree-lined streets, a low-density residential character protected by deed. Major civic anchors include the Queens Public Library Flushing Branch, a busy hub in downtown, and the sprawling Flushing Meadows-Corona Park with museums, gardens, and sports venues. Transit is strong: the 7 train terminates at Flushing-Main Street and reaches Grand Central in under a short span; the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch connects to Penn Station. Housing values in the area are elevated and have appreciated in recent years; rental costs have also risen notably.

At the district level, all elementary schools including PS 32 adopted a standardized phonics-based reading curriculum called Into Reading beginning in 2023, ending the prior practice in which principals selected their own materials. Middle school admissions screening for selective programs now returns to district-level control rather than citywide lottery. The city's gifted and talented program has been overhauled to include a local G&T option in every district, with a teacher-recommendation-based entry process for kindergarten rather than a standardized test, and a new third-grade entry point as well.

The school's current data does not include information on graduation rate, attendance, discipline, or staffing, as those metrics either do not apply to an elementary school or were not available in the data provided.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 371%

School 71% · District 74% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 480%

School 80% · District 72% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 572%

School 72% · District 69% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 60%

School 0% · District 62% · ▼ 62 pts below district

▼ 45 pts below state median · ▼ 50 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 66% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 62% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 66% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 60%

School 0% · District 60% · ▼ 60 pts below district

▼ 46 pts below state median · ▼ 56 pts below county median

Science

Grade 563%

School 63% · District 57% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 597%

School 97% · district not reported

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

This schoolNEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income60%Higher-income82%22 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income70%Higher-income87%18 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income66%Higher-income89%23 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income80%Higher-income90%10 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income65%Higher-income83%19 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income74%Higher-income93%19 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income67%Higher-income82%15 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income92%Higher-income93%1 pp gap