BELL ACADEMY

BELL ACADEMY is one of the cozy 6-8 campuss in BAYSIDE, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, with 441 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, which oversees 46 schools and 33,704 students, BELL ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, BELL ACADEMY logs that the most-represented group is Asian (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 25% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, BELL ACADEMY records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting BELL ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BELL ACADEMY 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 58.4%; BELL ACADEMY posts 86.1%, +27.7 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Queens County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. BELL ACADEMY is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

The closest other public school is PS 169 BAY TERRACE, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BELL ACADEMY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BELL ACADEMY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 72.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 18%: 374 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged up from 30% to 43% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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