CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in ELMHURST, New York, CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is an expansive elementary-level community, run under CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. It serves 935 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL sits 111% bigger than that benchmark.

CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 31% Asian, 6% White, 5% Black. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 78% of students at CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL 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 46.2%; this one delivers 77.6%, a residual of +31.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Queens County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 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 CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 60.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL has climbed 132%, going from 403 students in 2018 to 935 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share increased from 18% to 31%. Class-load math has widened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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