EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III

EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III is one of the cozy high schools in JAMAICA, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, with 498 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 25% smaller than typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 21,817 students; EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). The remainder breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III tighter than the state norm the norm. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 140 EDWARD K ELLINGTON, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 526 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 3% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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