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Enrollment
761
Middle
DISTRICT 1,140 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009806431
CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY
98-11 44TH AVE, CORONA, NY 11368 · (718) 507-3820 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL761 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% of New York public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
9.4:1
81 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
728 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 226 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 277 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 257 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
4%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
32.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
28.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 21.5% |
% 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
31.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY
CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY's state test result (31.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY this school | 761 | 95.7% | 31.3% |
| PS 419 FLUSHING | 602 | 95.0% | 31.1% |
| NEW SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND JOURNALISM (THE) BRONX | 555 | 99.3% | 45.8% |
| ACADEMY FOR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE BRONX | 788 | 94.4% | 35.0% |
| EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 1,108 | 87.3% | 43.1% |
| IS 136 CHARLES O DEWEY BROOKLYN | 474 | 91.8% | 30.3% |
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 CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #708 of 766 | #56 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #716 of 768 ▲ 23 | #57 of 57 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #661 of 768 ▲ 2 | #55 of 57 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 761 | #181 of 796 | #28 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #178 of 683 | #5 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.6% | #685 of 688 | #56 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.7% | #53 of 773 | #1 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.8% | #107 of 168 | #7 of 9 |
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
761
+20 (+3%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 9.6:1
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 | 761 | 81 | 9.4:1 | 96% (728) |
| 2023-24 | 735 | 80.4 | 9.1:1 | 95% (701) |
| 2022-23 | 740 | 78 | 9.5:1 | 98% (724) |
| 2020-21 | 741 | 77 | 9.6:1 | 97% (720) |
| 2017-18 | 726 | 49 | 14.8:1 | 98% (708) |
| 2015-16 | 305 | 20 | 15.3:1 | 97% (295) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY.
About CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY
CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY is a mid-sized middle school in New York, located in CORONA. Enrollment totals 761 students across grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 531.
Across its 57 schools, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 enrolls 48,008 students. CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY is one of those schools.
Hispanic students account for 98% of the school's enrollment. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 28%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 4, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY comes to 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.4:1. Middle schools in New York have an average ratio of 10.3:1. On the income side, 96% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
Among New York public middle schools, CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY outscored 10%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY would be expected to post about 39.8%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 31.3%.
Census data for Queens County show the median household earns about $86,136 a year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY, Queens County has 392 public schools.
PS 110 is the nearest public school to CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY, less than a tenth of a mile away. CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY ranks 7th on proficiency.
CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY has an NCES locale of City: Large.
The school grew from 741 students in 2020-21 to 761 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
Related schools
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 CORONA
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCIMiddle · 2,131 students
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTETElementary · 1,506 students
- PS 143 LOUIS ARMSTRONGElementary · 1,344 students
- PS 14 FAIRVIEWElementary · 986 students
- PS 16 NANCY DEBENEDITTIS SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 931 students
- ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 878 students
Nearby schools
- PS 1100.1 mi · 808
- PIONEER ACADEMY0.2 mi · 687
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTET0.2 mi · 1,506
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCI0.3 mi · 2,131
- PS 16 NANCY DEBENEDITTIS SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 931
- ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 878
Frequently asked questions
About CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMYHow large is CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY?
CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY enrolls approximately 761 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY serve?
CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY?
Approximately 9.4:1 students per teacher at CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY.
How diverse is CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY?
CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY reports a student body of 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian.
Is CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY public or private?
CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES 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.