CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY

CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle schools in CORONA, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, with 761 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, which oversees 57 schools and 48,008 students, CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY records that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.3%.

Across the wider county, Queens County reports that median household income runs about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PS 110, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CORONA ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 38.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 726 students in 2018 compared to 761 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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