HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 1-50 51ST AVE, in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small 6-8 campus that teaches 397 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. That puts it 25% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 53 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, a district that works with 35,337 students overall.

On demographics, HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 18% White, 12% Black, 11% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.3%; this one delivers 64.7%.

In the area at large, Queens County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ACADEMY FOR CAREERS IN TELEVISION AND FILM, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 71.2%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 397). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 24% to 18% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

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