EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH

Set in SOUTH OZONE PARK, New York, EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH is an intimate 9-12 campus, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. It instructs 435 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 35% leaner than typical.

EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH is one of 63 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, a district that instructs 39,209 students overall.

On demographics, EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Asian, 27% Black, 7% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 45.5%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the area at large, Queens County reports that median household income runs about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH is one campus in the mix.

JHS 226 VIRGIL I GRISSON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 62.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. EPIC HIGH SCHOOL-SOUTH's enrollment has edged up 30% since 2018, when it stood at 335 (now 435). Black enrollment moved from 35% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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