The Children's Lab School

Math is where the most striking story lives: proficiency jumped from 37.2% in 2018 to 70% in 2025 — nearly doubling — and now sits roughly 15 percentage points above the District 24 average of 54.8%. ELA has climbed too, from 45.6% to 60.5%, putting the school about 9 points above the district average of 51.1%, though the path was bumpier with a dip during the 2022 testing year. The 2.61/4 overall score places the school comfortably above the district average of 2.12, and results by grade suggest upper-grade students (4th and 5th) are performing strongest.

The climate picture here is almost unusually positive on every soft measure — 96% parent satisfaction, 98% parent-teacher trust, 99% teacher-principal trust, and 100% of teachers reporting the school is safe — alongside three straight years of zero suspensions. The daily attendance rate of 92.8% is right at the district average, which sounds fine until you look at the chronic absenteeism rate: 75.8% of students missed 10% or more of the school year, a figure that warrants a real conversation with the school about why so many kids are out so often. The 49% family survey response rate and only 32 teacher survey responses are worth noting as context for how confident to be in the survey numbers.

The student body is majority Hispanic (54%) and Asian (25%), with a White minority (16%) and small Multiracial and Native American slices — a diversity index of 64%. Sunnyside itself is a mixed-income neighborhood where 12% of households live below the poverty line and median household income sits around $78,000, and the school's 66.3% economic need index reflects that working- and middle-class mix. With 22% of students classified as IEP, this is a school that serves a meaningful share of students with disabilities, and 447 students keep it on the smaller side for a zoned Queens elementary.

Sunnyside is one of the most family-dense, working- and middle-class neighborhoods in western Queens, with a 44% college-educated adult population and a renter-heavy housing market where only about a fifth of households own their home. The neighborhood draws a mix of long-time Latino and Asian families alongside newer arrivals, and the median home value of around $660,000 tells you it's no longer the bargain it once was — but still well below Brooklyn equivalents. The 7 train cuts straight through, making it one of the easier Queens commutes into Midtown Manhattan.

Three 7 train stations serve the school directly: 40 St-Lowery St about a 3-minute walk, 46 St-Bliss St about a 5-minute walk, and 33 St-Rawson St about a 10-minute walk.