Enrollment
373
High
DISTRICT 793 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012306528
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH
94-25 117TH ST, SOUTH RICHMOND HILL, NY 11419 · (718) 570-8230 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL373 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
301 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 10 | 104 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 96 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 105 | 28% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -11.0pp since 2023
Math
28.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 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 down about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 17.0% |
% 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
36.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH's state test result (36.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH this school | 373 | 80.7% | 36.2% |
| UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 474 | 75.9% | 64.2% |
| MANHATTAN/HUNTER SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 447 | 73.8% | 88.0% |
| ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FLUSHING | 587 | 80.9% | 50.0% |
| LOWER EAST SIDE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 553 | 89.2% | 65.0% |
| ROBERT H GODDARD HS-COMM/TECH OZONE PARK | 613 | 82.1% | 60.7% |
Matched among New York high 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 EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #1,001 of 1,135 | #82 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #906 of 1,109 ▲ 124 | #75 of 85 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #872 of 1,135 ▼ 166 | #79 of 89 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 373 | #780 of 1,216 | #77 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #434 of 1,058 | #11 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #185 of 1,070 | #36 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.7% | #442 of 1,167 | #51 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.4% | #647 of 743 | #37 of 48 |
Ranked against other public high 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
373
-48 (-11%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 373 | 35.2 | 10.6:1 | 81% (301) |
| 2023-24 | 386 | 33.9 | 11.4:1 | 80% (308) |
| 2022-23 | 387 | 32.2 | 12.0:1 | 74% (287) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 32 | 13.2:1 | 76% (318) |
| 2017-18 | 386 | 23 | 16.8:1 | 74% (286) |
| 2015-16 | 176 | 9 | 19.6:1 | 72% (127) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH.
About EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH is a high school in SOUTH RICHMOND HILL, New York, reachable at (718) 570-8230. It serves 373 students in grades 9 through 12. For comparison, high schools in New York average about 668 students.
Besides EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 runs 62 other schools. The district enrolls 39,209 students.
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH's enrollment is 50% Hispanic. The remaining shares are 29% Asian, 12% Black, 3% White, and 2% Native American. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Queens County's population at about 28%. EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH has a diversity index of 65%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
A ratio of 10.6:1 comes from the school's 35.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. High schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 11.0:1. The lunch program counts 81% of students at EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH is 9.2 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (36.2% versus 45.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
According to the American Community Survey, in Queens County, median household income is about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 392 public schools operate in Queens County, serving about 268,205 students.
The closest public school to EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH is RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 36.2% average proficiency ranks 8th among 8 nearby schools.
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH went from 421 students to 373. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 13.2:1 to 10.6:1.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 #27
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
Other schools in SOUTH RICHMOND HILL
- PS 62 CHESTER PARK SCHOOLElementary · 827 students
Nearby schools
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,841
- PS 510.4 mi · 202
- PS 161 ARTHUR ASHE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 558
- PS 62 CHESTER PARK SCHOOL0.5 mi · 827
- PS 56 HARRY EICHLER0.5 mi · 360
- PS 90 HORACE MANN0.6 mi · 586
Frequently asked questions
About EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTHWhat is the total enrollment at EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH?
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH enrolls approximately 373 students in grades 09-12.
Is EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH an elementary, middle, or high school?
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH?
Approximately 10.6:1 students per teacher at EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH.
How diverse is EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH?
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH reports a student body of 3% White, 50% Hispanic, 12% Black, 29% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH in?
EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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