P.S./I.S. 78Q

With ELA proficiency at 82.8% and math at 84.5%, P.S./I.S. 78Q outperforms District 30 averages (60.7% and 62.2%) by roughly 22 percentage points in each subject. The math trajectory is the headline story: from 53.5% in 2016 to 84.5% in 2025, an increase of 31 points. ELA has climbed just as steadily, from 60.7% to 82.8%. Scores hold up well across every tested grade, with grade 4 math hitting 90.1% proficiency. This is sustained, broad-based improvement — not a single-cohort spike.

Teachers give this school an emphatic endorsement: 100% report feeling safe and trusting school leadership, with 96% collegial trust among peers and 92% rating instruction quality favorably. Discipline is almost invisible — one suspension in three years. The picture from parents is a touch less glowing: parent satisfaction sits at 90%, slightly below the district average of 93%, even as parent-principal trust reaches 93%. Attendance at 93.4% is modestly above average, but the chronic absenteeism figure of 82% is striking and worth asking the school about directly — particularly since the pattern by demographic group (higher among Asian and White students) is unusual.

About 36% of students are White, 28% Asian, 24% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 5% Black — a genuinely mixed population reflected in the school's 80% diversity index. The economic need index of just 20% mirrors the surrounding neighborhood, where the poverty rate is 6% and over 80% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. Twelve percent of students have IEPs and the school offers ELL support, suggesting it serves a real range of learners within an otherwise affluent catchment area.

Long Island City-Hunters Point has been reshaped by two decades of high-rise residential development, and the census figures show the result: a median household income above $158,000, a bachelor's-degree rate over 80%, and a homeownership rate of just 21.5% that signals a predominantly renter population. The neighborhood is dense, well-educated, and relatively affluent, with a median home value approaching $900,000 reflecting the area's transformation. Families here tend to be a mix of long-time residents and newer arrivals drawn by new construction and waterfront access.

Three subway options sit within a 10-minute walk: the 7 train at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue (about 5 minutes) and Hunters Point Avenue (about 10 minutes), plus the G at 21st Street (about 8 minutes).