GOTHAM TECH HIGH SCHOOL

Set in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, GOTHAM TECH HIGH SCHOOL is an one-room-style high school, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. It teaches 266 students across grades 9 through 11. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 60% below typical.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, which oversees 53 schools and 35,337 students, GOTHAM TECH HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, GOTHAM TECH HIGH SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder comes out to 13% Asian, 12% White, 8% Black, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 81% of students at GOTHAM TECH HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, GOTHAM TECH HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Queens County) records 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 GOTHAM TECH HIGH SCHOOL is one.

MOTION PICTURE TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL 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. On composite proficiency, GOTHAM TECH HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

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