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What's one thing CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
580
High
DISTRICT 803 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009806028
CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
45-10 94TH ST, ELMHURST, NY 11373 · (718) 271-1487 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL580 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 64% of New York public high schools
- B-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
502 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 149 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 142 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 147 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 137 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
75.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
56.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 60.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY's state test result (60.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY this school | 580 | 86.6% | 60.2% |
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND BUSINESS CORONA | 721 | 87.4% | 63.3% |
| MATH ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 515 | 87.4% | 57.2% |
| INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE LONG ISLAND CITY | 455 | 93.6% | 52.0% |
| MOTT HALL V BRONX | 636 | 89.2% | 38.7% |
| CYPRESS HILLS COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 413 | 90.3% | 45.3% |
Matched among New York high 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 CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.2% | #542 of 1,135 | #32 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #485 of 1,109 ▲ 22 | #29 of 85 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #493 of 1,135 ▲ 46 | #30 of 89 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 580 | #459 of 1,216 | #48 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #777 of 1,058 | #35 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.9% | #831 of 1,070 | #85 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.6% | #322 of 1,167 | #23 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.6% | #155 of 339 | #19 of 39 |
Ranked against other public high 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
580
-76 (-12%) vs 2020
+77% since 2010-11, when it was 328
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 580 | 46.3 | 12.5:1 | 87% (502) |
| 2023-24 | 568 | 44.3 | 12.8:1 | 84% (478) |
| 2022-23 | 578 | 44.4 | 13.0:1 | 82% (474) |
| 2020-21 | 656 | 44 | 14.9:1 | 86% (562) |
| 2017-18 | 529 | 33 | 16.0:1 | 77% (405) |
| 2015-16 | 467 | 29 | 16.1:1 | 71% (331) |
| 2010-11 | 328 | 23 | 14.3:1 | 78% (255) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY.
About CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a high school in ELMHURST, New York. The school reports 580 students in grades 9 through 12.
CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one school in a 57-school district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, which enrolls 48,008 students.
Hispanic students make up 86% of enrollment at CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. The next largest groups are 8% Asian and 2% White. In Queens County overall, about 28% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 25% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY total 46.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.5:1. That is 1.5 students per teacher above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 87%. That is 10 points above the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
allk12 grades CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY a B. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 60.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 43.2%.
County data help place the school in context: in Queens County, the median household income is $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. In all, Queens County has 392 public schools and roughly 268,205 students.
VOYAGES PREPARATORY is the closest public school, less than a tenth of a mile away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY comes in 1st of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY as City: Large.
Enrollment is down 12% from 2020-21, when CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY had 656 students, to 2024-25, when it had 580. Students per teacher fell from 14.9 in 2020-21 to 12.5 in 2024-25.
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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
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Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCIMiddle · 2,131 students
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,581 students
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTETElementary · 1,506 students
Other schools in ELMHURST
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- IS 5 WALTER CROWLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,203 students
- PS 7 LOUIS F SIMEONEElementary · 1,187 students
- PS 102 BAYVIEWElementary · 1,107 students
- PS 89 JOSE PERALTA SCHOOL OF DREAMERS (THE)Elementary · 1,047 students
- MASPETH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,001 students
Nearby schools
- VOYAGES PREPARATORY0.0 mi · 155
- PAN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 482
- INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH SCIENCES0.2 mi · 292
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 2,072
- PS 1100.3 mi · 808
- CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY0.4 mi · 761
Frequently asked questions
About CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMYHow many students attend CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY enrolls approximately 580 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY serve?
CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is approximately 12.5:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
At CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 2% White, 86% Hispanic, 2% Black, 8% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY public or private?
CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.