Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

PS 131 Abigail Adams, Jamaica, NY

CEP schoolPS 131 Abigail Adams is a public elementary school in Jamaica, part of New York City Geographic District #29. It enrolled 754 students in 2024-25, with 14.0 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "PS 131 ABIGAIL ADAMS".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 754
Teachers (FTE): 54.0
Students per teacher: 14.0
Grades: PK to 5

This school's ratio is 0.9 higher than the district figure of 13.1. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.0

District13.1

New York11.4

United States15.3

School details

Address: 170-45 84th Ave, Jamaica, NY 11432
Phone: (718)480-2840
District: New York City Geographic District #29
County: Queens County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Large
NCES school ID: 360010102483

Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 637
Reduced-price lunch: 28
Free or reduced-price lunch: 66588.2% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in New York City Geographic District #29

PS 95 Eastwood 1,103 students
Ps/Is 116 William C Hughley 806 students
PS 33 Edward M Funk 735 students
Bellaire School (The) 699 students
Ps/Is 268 696 students
PS 35 Nathaniel Woodhull 626 students
Ps/Is 208 605 students
Ps/Is 295 562 students
Gordon Parks School (The) 561 students
PS 176 Cambria Heights 561 students
Ps/Ms 138 Sunrise 554 students
PS 34 John Harvard 440 students

Elementary schools elsewhere in Jamaica

PS 50 Talfourd Lawn Elementary School New York City Geographic District #28
Growing Up Green Charter School II Growing Up Green Charter School II
PS 182 Samantha Smith New York City Geographic District #28
PS 117 J Keld/Briarwood School New York City Geographic District #28
PS 86 New York City Geographic District #28
PS 82 Hammond New York City Geographic District #28
PS 160 Walter Francis Bishop New York City Geographic District #28
Queens School for Leadership and Excellence (The) New York City Geographic District #28
PS 223 Lyndon B Johnson New York City Geographic District #27
PS 161 Arthur Ashe School New York City Geographic District #28
Success Academy Charter School-South Jamaica Success Academy Charter School-South Jamaica
Jermaine L Green STEM Institute of Queens (The) New York City Geographic District #28

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.