Enrollment
293
Middle
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29·NCES 360010106286
COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL
145-00 SPRINGFIELD BLVD, SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, NY 11413 · (718) 977-6180 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
251 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 78 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 116 | 40% |
| Grade 8 | 98 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
46.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
63.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
49.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% 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 COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL
COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (49.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 293 | 85.7% | 49.3% |
| IS 392 BROOKLYN | 284 | 85.9% | 55.4% |
| COLLABORATIVE ARTS MIDDLE SCHOOL SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 286 | 88.5% | 43.9% |
| MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL BROOKLYN | 286 | 89.2% | 46.3% |
| NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 226 | 88.1% | 38.0% |
| LAUNCH EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 268 | 92.5% | 56.2% |
Matched among New York middle 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 COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #442 of 766 | #38 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #340 of 768 ▼ 37 | #26 of 57 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #395 of 768 ▼ 43 | #43 of 57 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #571 of 796 | #48 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #522 of 683 | #21 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.5% | #434 of 688 | #43 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.7% | #183 of 773 | #23 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #457 of 524 | #39 of 43 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
293
-26 (-8%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 293 | 25 | 11.7:1 | 86% (251) |
| 2023-24 | 304 | 25.7 | 11.8:1 | 83% (252) |
| 2022-23 | 296 | 29.2 | 10.1:1 | 83% (246) |
| 2020-21 | 319 | 30 | 10.6:1 | 81% (257) |
| 2017-18 | 304 | 21 | 14.5:1 | 71% (216) |
| 2015-16 | 371 | 27 | 13.7:1 | 72% (267) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL
Among the schools in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, New York, is COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL, a small middle school. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 293 students. Average enrollment for middle schools in New York is about 531, so this school runs 45% smaller than that.
The district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, has 21,817 students enrolled across 46 schools.
At COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL, Black students make up 73% of the student body. Next come 20% Hispanic and 2% White. The county population is about 17% Black. COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL's diversity index is 43%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teacher staffing is 25 full-time equivalents, or about 11.7 students per teacher. On average, middle schools in New York have 10.3:1, compared with 11.7:1 here. About 86% of students, or 251, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Queens County average 77%.
The allk12 Grade for COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is B. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 55% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
In New York, COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 49.3% actual against a predicted 43.5%.
Among Queens County residents, the median household income is $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in the county.
The closest other public school is COLLABORATIVE ARTS MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency of 49.3% compares with 50.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Over 4 years, COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment dropped 8%, to 293. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.6:1 to 11.7:1.
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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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- PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 521 students
- EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 480 students
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCESHigh · 421 students
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Nearby schools
- COLLABORATIVE ARTS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 286
- PS 2510.0 mi · 217
- PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL0.3 mi · 521
- EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 480
- QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.3 mi · 320
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES0.3 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL?
COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 293 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 11.7:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 20% Hispanic, 73% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
COMMUNITY VOICES MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.