Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
PS 196 Grand Central Parkway, Forest Hills, NY
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 749
- Teachers (FTE)
- 49.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.3
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 15.0. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 71-25 113th St, Forest Hills, NY 11375
- Phone
- (718)263-9770
- County
- Queens County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 360010002667
School meals
- Free lunch
- 163
- Reduced-price lunch
- 4
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 16722.3% 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 #28
- PS 50 Talfourd Lawn Elementary School 904 students
- PS 182 Samantha Smith 810 students
- PS 117 J Keld/Briarwood School 775 students
- PS 144 Col Jeromus Remsen 766 students
- PS 99 Kew Gardens 758 students
- PS 121 750 students
- PS 175 Lynn Gross Discovery School (The) 710 students
- PS 86 689 students
- PS 82 Hammond 674 students
- PS 160 Walter Francis Bishop 661 students
- PS 220 Edward Mandel 616 students
- PS 101 School in the Gardens 605 students
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.