Enrollment
382
Middle
DISTRICT 697 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010202466
ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
31-51 21ST ST, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11106 · (718) 274-8316 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL382 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New York public middle 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
324 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 140 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 115 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 124 | 32% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
Student demographics
71%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
63.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 59.5% |
% 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
60.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS's state test result (60.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS this school | 382 | 84.8% | 60.6% |
| PUGSLEY PREPARATORY ACADEMY BRONX | 544 | 90.6% | 45.5% |
| MS 358 JAMAICA | 345 | 92.5% | 57.8% |
| IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) FLUSHING | 254 | 83.5% | 40.6% |
| MS 890 BROOKLYN | 336 | 79.8% | 65.9% |
| HAWTREE CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL SOUTH OZONE PARK | 388 | 79.1% | 62.3% |
Matched among New York middle 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 ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.6% | #253 of 766 | #21 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #339 of 768 ▲ 21 | #25 of 57 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #210 of 768 ▼ 69 | #23 of 57 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 382 | #460 of 796 | #42 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #325 of 683 | #8 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.3% | #38 of 688 | #8 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.8% | #196 of 773 | #27 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.0% | #39 of 524 | #2 of 43 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
382
-198 (-34%) vs 2020
-38% since 2010-11, when it was 616
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 382 | 37.3 | 10.2:1 | 85% (324) |
| 2023-24 | 402 | 35.8 | 11.2:1 | 85% (341) |
| 2022-23 | 387 | 37.5 | 10.3:1 | 83% (322) |
| 2020-21 | 580 | 42 | 13.8:1 | 82% (478) |
| 2017-18 | 659 | 44 | 15.0:1 | 87% (572) |
| 2015-16 | 581 | 40 | 14.5:1 | 90% (521) |
| 2010-11 | 616 | 42 | 14.7:1 | 91% (560) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS.
About ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS is one of the public schools in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York. It is a small middle school. The student body numbers 382 students, from grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in New York) has about 531 students.
District-wide, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 has 53 schools and 35,337 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS is Hispanic (43%). The remaining students are 24% Asian, 16% White, 13% Black, and 2% multiracial. Census figures show Queens County is about 28% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 71%.
The school reports 37.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 10.2 students per teacher. Across middle schools in New York, the average ratio is about 10.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 85% of students. Compared with the 77% average for public schools in Queens County, the school's rate is higher.
allk12 grades ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS an A-. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS, the prediction is 43.8% and the result is 60.6%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Queens County, median household income is about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 392 public schools operate in Queens County, serving about 268,205 students.
LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.2 miles away in a straight line. ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 60.6% average proficiency ranks 4th among 9 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
Enrollment was 580 in 2020-21 and 382 in 2024-25, a decrease of 198 students. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.8:1 to 10.2:1.
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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 #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
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 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
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Nearby schools
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,639
- PS 171 PETER G VAN ALST0.3 mi · 410
- PS 2340.4 mi · 465
- ACADEMY FOR NEW AMERICANS0.4 mi · 50
- PS 17 HENRY DAVID THOREAU0.4 mi · 610
- 30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)0.4 mi · 525
Frequently asked questions
About ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTSHow many students attend ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS?
ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS enrolls approximately 382 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS serve?
ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS?
Approximately 10.2:1 students per teacher at ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS.
How diverse is ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS?
ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS reports a student body of 16% White, 43% Hispanic, 13% Black, 24% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS public or private?
ALBERT SHANKER SCHOOL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 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.