GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES

As a cozy 9-12 campus in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, New York, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES teaches 421 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, which oversees 46 schools and 21,817 students, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES logs that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 77% of students at GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.8%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Queens County put the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES is one.

The closest other public school is EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 462 students in 2018 compared to 421 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 74% to 61%.

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