Kindergarten Cop was released on February 1, 1991 at midnight.
 Most of the filming was completed after school was out in June 1990, allowing many of the students and faculty to be extras in the film
Universal Studios hired local artists Judith Niland and Carl Lyle Jenkins to paint murals on the walls at Astoria, and provided new playground equipment, a fenced playground, and a new lawn and hedges around the school

