Elementary · Special education · Grades PK to 8
PS 224, Bellerose, NY
PS 224 is a public elementary school in Bellerose, part of NYC Special Schools - District 75. It enrolled 414 students in 2024-25, with 5.3 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 414
- Teachers (FTE)
- 78.0
- Students per teacher
- 5.3
- Grades
- PK to 8
The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school5.3
New York11.4
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 252-12 72nd Ave, Bellerose, NY 11426
- Phone
- (718)831-4024
- County
- New York County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Special education
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 360013502858
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Free lunch
- 321
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 32177.5% of enrollment.
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 NYC Special Schools - District 75
- PS 373 710 students
- PS 186 Walter J Damrosch School 681 students
- Sid Miller Academy 595 students
- Robert E Peary School 581 students
- PS 177 569 students
- PS 255 552 students
- PS Q4 508 students
- Vida Bogart School for All Children (The) 499 students
- PS 372 Children'S School (The) 460 students
- PS 36 422 students
- Middle School 596 403 students
- PS 4 385 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Bellerose
- Ps/Is 208 New York City Geographic District #29
- PS 133 the Bellerose School of Excellence New York City Geographic District #26
- Ps/Is 266 New York City Geographic District #26
- PS 186 Castlewood New York City Geographic District #26
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.