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Enrollment
605
High
DISTRICT 793 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012306079
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL
8-21 BAY 25TH ST, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691 · (718) 471-3571 · Queens County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL605 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.4:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
520 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 6 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 48 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 117 | 19% |
| Grade 10 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 11 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 12 | 117 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
35.6%
NY avg 58.3% . -9.4pp since 2023
Math
33.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -9.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.6% | 33.3% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 43.1% |
% 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
32.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 →
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ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL's state test result (32.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL this school | 605 | 86.0% | 32.8% |
| UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SECONDARY SCHOOL-BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE BRONX | 596 | 88.3% | 93.0% |
| BROOKLYN PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 591 | 87.6% | 42.3% |
| QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY FAR ROCKAWAY | 507 | 85.4% | 40.7% |
| WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 665 | 87.4% | 32.7% |
| URBAN ASSEMBLY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE BRONX | 488 | 86.7% | 63.3% |
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 MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #1,046 of 1,135 | #86 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #832 of 1,109 ▼ 114 | #64 of 85 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #1,098 of 1,135 ▼ 54 | #88 of 89 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 605 | #435 of 1,216 | #43 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #876 of 1,058 | #46 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #308 of 1,070 | #48 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.0% | #333 of 1,167 | #25 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #559 of 743 | #30 of 48 |
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
605
-116 (-16%) vs 2020
+56% since 2010-11, when it was 387
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 605 | 45 | 13.4:1 | 86% (520) |
| 2023-24 | 608 | 49.6 | 12.3:1 | 86% (520) |
| 2022-23 | 670 | 48.1 | 13.9:1 | 79% (529) |
| 2020-21 | 721 | 49 | 14.7:1 | 82% (593) |
| 2017-18 | 645 | 48 | 13.4:1 | 79% (512) |
| 2015-16 | 614 | 47 | 13.1:1 | 75% (458) |
| 2010-11 | 387 | 28 | 13.8:1 | 69% (268) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL.
About ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is the name of a medium-sized high school in FAR ROCKAWAY, New York. The school's enrollment of 605 students covers grades 6 through 12.
The district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, operates 63 schools serving 39,209 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL, with 55% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 35% Black, 3% White, 2% Asian, and 2% Native American. The school's Hispanic share is 26 points above the 28% share among Queens County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 58% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL's 45 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 13.4:1. On average, high schools in New York have 11.0:1, compared with 13.4:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 86%. That rate is above the 77% average among public schools in Queens County.
allk12 grades ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 43.4% for a school in New York with ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL posts 32.8%.
Among Queens County residents, the median household income is $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Besides ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL, Queens County has 391 other public schools.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL is located less than a tenth of a mile from ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL. The five-mile area around ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL ranks 7th of 9 nearby schools, at 32.8% versus a 42.3% average.
NCES assigns ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 16% from 2020-21, when ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL had 721 students, to 2024-25, when it had 605. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 14.7:1 to 13.4:1.
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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 #27
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
Other schools in FAR ROCKAWAY
- CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,218 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FAR ROCKAWAYElementary · 728 students
- PS 105 BAY SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 600 students
- PS 43Elementary · 574 students
- PS 104 BAYS WATER (THE)Elementary · 542 students
- RANDOLPH HOLDER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE)Elementary · 542 students
Nearby schools
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 311
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY0.0 mi · 507
- KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREPARATORY ACADEMY VI0.0 mi · 281
- CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,218
- WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 484
- PS 104 BAYS WATER (THE)0.4 mi · 542
Frequently asked questions
About ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHow large is ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL?
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL enrolls approximately 605 students in grades 06-12.
Is ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many teachers does ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL have?
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL?
At ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 55% Hispanic, 35% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL public or private?
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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