AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL

Set in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is a high-enrollment secondary school, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24. It caters to 1,924 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL sits 188% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 57 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 (48,008 students total), AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 28% Asian, 12% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL records 145 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 47.4%; AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL posts 73.5%, +26.1 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Queens County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is one.

QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 2,087 (now 1,924). Over the same period, the Asian share edged down from 36% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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