IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)
IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) operates as a tight-knit 6-8 campus in FLUSHING, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. Current enrollment sits at 254 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 52% below typical.
IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) is one of 46 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, a district that hosts 33,704 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Black, 22% Asian, 6% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.3%; this one delivers 40.6%.
In the broader community, 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), IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.6%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Looking at the recent track record. IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)'s enrollment has decreased 37% since 2018, when it stood at 402 (now 254). Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.
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