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Enrollment
1,206
High
DISTRICT 852 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010202562
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES
40-11 28TH ST, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101 · (718) 361-8786 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,206 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New York public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
77 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
818 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 170 | 14% |
| Grade 10 | 329 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 384 | 32% |
| Grade 12 | 323 | 27% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
89.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 93.0% | 63.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES's state test result (70.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES this school | 1,206 | 67.8% | 70.0% |
| METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL FOREST HILLS | 837 | 68.9% | 48.2% |
| BEACON HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 1,372 | 61.4% | 98.5% |
| SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 2,743 | 69.4% | 57.2% |
| QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL FOREST HILLS | 1,068 | 66.9% | 63.8% |
| LEON M GOLDSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES BROOKLYN | 952 | 65.8% | 72.3% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #344 of 1,135 | #15 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #597 of 1,109 ▼ 137 | #35 of 85 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #201 of 1,135 ▼ 27 | #9 of 89 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,206 | #172 of 1,216 | #18 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #1,017 of 1,058 | #81 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #96 of 1,070 | #20 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.8% | #547 of 1,167 | #82 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.7% | #75 of 339 | #11 of 39 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,206
+89 (+8%) vs 2020
+76% since 2010-11, when it was 684
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 17.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,206 | 76.9 | 15.7:1 | 68% (818) |
| 2023-24 | 1,399 | 83.6 | 16.7:1 | 69% (964) |
| 2022-23 | 1,363 | 80.1 | 17.0:1 | 68% (927) |
| 2020-21 | 1,117 | 64 | 17.4:1 | 71% (788) |
| 2017-18 | 1,016 | 49.2 | 20.6:1 | 69% (696) |
| 2015-16 | 895 | 40 | 22.4:1 | 71% (637) |
| 2010-11 | 684 | 36 | 19.0:1 | 63% (430) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES.
About ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES is a large high school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, (ZIP code 11101). The student body numbers 1,206 students, from grades 9 through 12. An average school in this group (high schools in New York) has about 668 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 runs 53 schools with a combined 35,337 students. ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES is one of them.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES. The largest is White students, at 36%. Smaller groups are 35% Hispanic, 22% Asian, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Queens County is roughly 26% White. ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES's diversity index is 70%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1 at ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES, with 76.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. On average, high schools in New York have 11.0:1, compared with 15.7:1 here. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 68% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Queens County average 77%.
allk12 grades ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES an A-. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 70.0% and a predicted 50.0%.
County data help place the school in context: in Queens County, the median household income is $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. In all, Queens County has 392 public schools and roughly 268,205 students.
ATLAS is the closest public school, less than a tenth of a mile away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 70.0% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 9 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 89 more students in 2024-25. The number of students per teacher fell from 17.4 to 15.7 over 4 years.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Queens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,323,052
Census ACS
Median income
$86,136
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
392
268,205 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
- PS 122 MAMIE FAYElementary · 1,124 students
Other schools in LONG ISLAND CITY
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
- IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)Middle · 1,005 students
Nearby schools
- ATLAS0.1 mi · 1,162
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 692
- ENERGY TECH HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 487
- IS 204 OLIVER W HOLMES0.4 mi · 384
- PS 112 DUTCH KILLS0.4 mi · 521
- PS 111 JACOB BLACKWELL0.5 mi · 554
Frequently asked questions
About ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHow many students attend ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES?
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES enrolls approximately 1,206 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES serve?
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES is approximately 15.7:1 (77 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES?
Student demographics at ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES are roughly 36% White, 35% Hispanic, 3% Black, 22% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES public or private?
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.