ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS operates as a low-enrollment middle-grades school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. Current enrollment sits at 382 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 28% below typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 35,337 students. ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS records that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 24% Asian, 16% White, 13% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS logs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Queens County's rate of about 77%.

With demographic context factored in, ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 60.6%, a residual of +16.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Queens County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS is one.

LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS has shrank 42%, going from 659 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 9% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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