CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY operates as an average-sized four-year high school in ELMHURST, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24. Current enrollment sits at 580 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of 57 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, a district that caters to 48,008 students overall.

Looking at the student body, CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY shows that nearly all students (86%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 8% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Queens County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.2%, the actual is 60.2%, a residual of +17.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate 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), CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

PAN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY has climbed 10%, going from 529 students in 2018 to 580 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.