COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL

COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the low-enrollment 6-8 campuss in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, with 293 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 45% leaner than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, which oversees 46 schools and 21,817 students, COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder comes out to 20% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Queens County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.3%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Queens County shows median household earnings sit near $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

COLLABORATIVE ARTS MIDDLE 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, COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 304 (now 293). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 87% to 73%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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