CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL

CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL is a primary school of modestly sized scale in JAMAICA, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, hosting 297 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 21,817 students; CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL shows that Black students make up the majority at 78%; the rest is composed of 14% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.8%.

Zooming out to the 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), CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MERRICK ACADEMY-QUEENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.6%.

CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL has fell 34%, going from 451 students in 2018 to 297 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 87% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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