CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY

Set in HOLLIS, New York, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY is a low-enrollment high school, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29. It teaches 359 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 46% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 21,817 students; CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY is among them.

In terms of who attends, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY lists that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.6%; this one delivers 39.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Queens County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PS 35 NATHANIEL WOODHULL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CAMBRIA HEIGHTS ACADEMY has stayed largely flat, going from 357 students in 2018 to 359 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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