FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL

Set in FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL is a compact 9-12 campus, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. It teaches 311 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 53% smaller than typical.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, which oversees 63 schools and 39,209 students, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Black (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 45% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 37.2%, a residual of -5.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Queens County shows 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), FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREPARATORY ACADEMY VI, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 7%, going from 336 students in 2018 to 311 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 54% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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