BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS

BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS, a mid-tier secondary school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, works with 643 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 comprises 57 schools with combined enrollment of 48,008 students; BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS is among them.

On demographics, BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 29% Asian, 21% White, 15% Black, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Queens County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS 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 51.2%; BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS posts 80.7%, +29.5 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Queens County shows median household income runs about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS is one.

Nearest neighbor: HIGH SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATIONS, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS. On composite proficiency, BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS's enrollment has climbed 3% since 2018, when it stood at 622 (now 643). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 34% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.