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BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 34 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION
BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION is a low-enrollment four-year high school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. The school instructs 523 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION sits 22% smaller than that benchmark.
BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION is one of 53 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, a district that caters to 35,337 students overall.
Looking at the student body, BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION lists that the most-represented group is Asian (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 31% White, 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 54.7%; this one delivers 88.7%, a residual of +33.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Queens County) records that median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).
Nearest neighbor: FRANK SINATRA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 57.9%.
BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION operates from an urban location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 539 students in 2018 compared to 523 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 46% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.
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