Enrollment
441
Middle
DISTRICT 822 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012205979
BELL ACADEMY
18-25 212TH ST, BAYSIDE, NY 11360 · (718) 428-0587 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL441 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of New York public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
15.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
199 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 | 205 | 46% |
| Grade 7 | 136 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 100 | 23% |
Student demographics
69%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
83.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
93.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 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 | 83.0% | 93.0% |
| 2023-24 | 85.0% | 89.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% 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 28 points, placing it in New York's top 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 BELL ACADEMY
BELL ACADEMY's state test result (86.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELL ACADEMY this school | 441 | 45.1% | 86.1% |
| NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES NEW YORK | 538 | 40.9% | 89.2% |
| IS 289 NEW YORK | 253 | 51.0% | 79.0% |
| WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVITTOWN | 765 | 44.6% | 69.7% |
| CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOL WESTBURY | 663 | 29.4% | 69.3% |
| LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL NEW YORK | 313 | 52.1% | 75.3% |
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 BELL ACADEMY ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.1% | #19 of 766 | #1 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #91 of 768 ▲ 20 | #2 of 57 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #28 of 768 ▼ 14 | #2 of 57 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 441 | #401 of 796 | #36 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #668 of 683 | #49 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.8% | #78 of 688 | #10 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.1% | #472 of 773 | #57 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.9% | #31 of 168 | #2 of 9 |
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
441
+89 (+25%) vs 2020
+45% since 2010-11, when it was 305
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 441 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 45% (199) |
| 2023-24 | 360 | 27 | 13.3:1 | 42% (152) |
| 2022-23 | 348 | 26 | 13.4:1 | 44% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 352 | 23 | 15.3:1 | 49% (171) |
| 2017-18 | 374 | 27 | 13.9:1 | 48% (181) |
| 2015-16 | 367 | 22 | 16.7:1 | 50% (183) |
| 2010-11 | 305 | 19 | 16.1:1 | 50% (151) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BELL ACADEMY.
About BELL ACADEMY
BELL ACADEMY is a small middle school in New York, located in BAYSIDE. Enrollment totals 441 students across grades 6 through 8.
BELL ACADEMY is a school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. The district has 46 schools and 33,704 students.
The biggest share of students at BELL ACADEMY, 43%, is Asian. Other reported shares: 26% Hispanic, 25% White, 3% multiracial, and 3% Black. That compares with about 26% Asian among all Queens County residents. The diversity index for BELL ACADEMY is 69%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
A staff of 28 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 15.8:1. Compared with the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York, this school's ratio is higher. By family income, 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 77% for public schools in Queens County.
Among New York public middle schools, BELL ACADEMY outscored 98%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at BELL ACADEMY are 27.7 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 86.1%, compared with a predicted 58.4%, which ranks in the top 10% in New York.
For the population of Queens County, median household income comes to about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Queens County counts 392 public schools with about 268,205 students.
BELL ACADEMY's nearest public school is PS 169 BAY TERRACE (less than a tenth of a mile). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, BELL ACADEMY is 2nd on average proficiency.
NCES assigns BELL ACADEMY the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 25% rise, from 352 to 441.
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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 #25
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
Other schools in BAYSIDE
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,004 students
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,866 students
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMiddle · 1,104 students
- MS 158 MARIE CURIEMiddle · 838 students
- PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENSElementary · 818 students
- PS 46 ALLEY PONDElementary · 520 students
Other Bell Academy schools
One other US public school is named Bell Academy. BELL ACADEMY is the largest of the 2.
- Bell AcademyBOYLE, MS · 327 students
Nearby schools
- PS 169 BAY TERRACE0.0 mi · 406
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 3,004
- PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS0.9 mi · 445
- PS 1590.9 mi · 504
- PS 41 CROCHERON1.0 mi · 445
- PS 184 FLUSHING MANOR1.1 mi · 462
Frequently asked questions
About BELL ACADEMYHow large is BELL ACADEMY?
BELL ACADEMY enrolls approximately 441 students in grades 06-08.
Is BELL ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
BELL ACADEMY is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does BELL ACADEMY have?
BELL ACADEMY employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
What is the student diversity at BELL ACADEMY?
Student demographics at BELL ACADEMY are roughly 25% White, 26% Hispanic, 3% Black, 43% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees BELL ACADEMY?
BELL ACADEMY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 in Queens County.
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