GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL is a heavily attended elementary-level community, run under GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL. It works with 692 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 56% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 18% Black, 16% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL operates from an urban location. GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 846 (now 692). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 37% to 56% over that span.

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