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Enrollment
1,313
Middle
DISTRICT 822 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012201996
IS 237
46-21 COLDEN ST, FLUSHING, NY 11355 · (718) 353-6464 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,313 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of New York public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
87 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
1,097 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 398 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 469 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 441 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 0% |
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
57.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
74.4%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 74.4% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 75.8% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
67.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like IS 237
IS 237's state test result (67.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IS 237 this school | 1,313 | 83.5% | 67.8% |
| JHS 220 JOHN J PERSHING BROOKLYN | 1,257 | 89.8% | 74.5% |
| CHRISTA MCAULIFFE SCHOOL (THE) /IS 187 BROOKLYN | 949 | 76.1% | 90.6% |
| JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN FLUSHING | 1,516 | 71.6% | 80.3% |
| MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 1,518 | 77.7% | 82.8% |
| JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER FLUSHING | 1,516 | 77.2% | 73.4% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where IS 237 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.8% | #169 of 766 | #15 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #236 of 768 ▼ 20 | #15 of 57 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #234 of 768 ▼ 64 | #28 of 57 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,313 | #27 of 796 | #11 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #667 of 683 | #48 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.4% | #455 of 688 | #45 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.5% | #205 of 773 | #30 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.7% | #456 of 524 | #38 of 43 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,313
-3 (0%) vs 2020
+9% since 2010-11, when it was 1,207
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 15.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,313 | 86.5 | 15.2:1 | 84% (1,097) |
| 2023-24 | 1,278 | 84.2 | 15.2:1 | 83% (1,056) |
| 2022-23 | 1,182 | 82.6 | 14.3:1 | 81% (961) |
| 2020-21 | 1,316 | 84 | 15.7:1 | 77% (1,009) |
| 2017-18 | 1,363 | 82 | 16.6:1 | 85% (1,152) |
| 2015-16 | 1,240 | 73 | 17.0:1 | 86% (1,064) |
| 2010-11 | 1,207 | 66 | 18.3:1 | 90% (1,089) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IS 237.
About IS 237
IS 237 is a public middle school run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 in FLUSHING, New York. Enrollment stands at 1,313 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That is 147% above the average of about 531 students for middle schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 is the local district for IS 237. It runs 46 schools with 33,704 students.
At IS 237, 75% of students are Asian. The remaining students are 20% Hispanic and 3% Black. Census figures show Queens County is about 26% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, IS 237 scores 40%.
IS 237 lists 86.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 15.2 students per teacher. The gap from the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is 4.9 students per teacher. About 84% of students at IS 237 are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
IS 237 holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 88% of New York public middle schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, IS 237 would score about 44.3%. It scores 67.8%, a top-10% result among New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
For Queens County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, IS 237 among them.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, is the closest to IS 237. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of IS 237. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, IS 237 ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 1,316 in 2020-21 and 1,313 in 2024-25.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Queens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,323,052
Census ACS
Median income
$86,136
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
392
268,205 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
- PS 79 FRANCIS LEWISElementary · 1,088 students
Other schools in FLUSHING
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
Nearby schools
- EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES0.0 mi · 700
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON0.3 mi · 1,197
- ACTIVE LEARNING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 458
- PS 1200.5 mi · 748
- PS 20 JOHN BOWNE0.6 mi · 995
- JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD0.8 mi · 603
Frequently asked questions
About IS 237How large is IS 237?
IS 237 enrolls approximately 1,313 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does IS 237 serve?
IS 237 serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does IS 237 have?
IS 237 employs 87 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.2:1.
What is the student diversity at IS 237?
Student demographics at IS 237 are roughly 1% White, 20% Hispanic, 3% Black, 75% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is IS 237 in?
IS 237 is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
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