EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH

EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH is a tight-knit secondary school in SOUTH RICHMOND HILL, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. The school works with 373 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 comprises 63 schools with combined enrollment of 39,209 students; EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH is among them.

On demographics, EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 29% Asian, 12% Black, 3% White, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of -9.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Queens County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH is one.

Nearest neighbor: RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH. On composite proficiency, EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.9%.

EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH has contracted 3%, going from 386 students in 2018 to 373 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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