INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE is one of the low-enrollment four-year high schools in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, with 455 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 32% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE is one of 57 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, a district that caters to 48,008 students overall.

Demographically, INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE logs that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 9% Asian, 5% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Queens County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +11.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Queens County put 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. INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

Nearest neighbor: MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 66.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE has shrank 13%, going from 525 students in 2018 to 455 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 58% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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