ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS

ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS is an intermediate school of minimally staffed scale in ASTORIA, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, serveing 50 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 91% leaner than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 35,337 students. ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS is one of those campuses.

Demographically, ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS logs that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% White, 4% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS logs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 4.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of -18.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Queens County put median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

PS 234 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.8%.

ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 48%: 97 students in 2018 compared to 50 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 66% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 7.5:1 in 2018 to 4.0:1 in 2025.

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