AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL

As a mid-tier secondary school in JAMAICA, New York, AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL enrolls 643 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.

Across the 63 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 (39,209 students total), AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 29% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% Native American. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of +1.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Queens County) records that median household income runs about $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED MATH AND SCIENCE IV, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 96% since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 643). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 67% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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