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What's one thing JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
894
Middle
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29·NCES 360010102409
JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
213-10 92ND AVE, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11428 · (718) 465-0651 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL894 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 66% of New York public middle schools
- B-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
12.6:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
699 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 284 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 297 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 311 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
90.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +40.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 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 up about 41 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 90.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 49.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
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 JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's state test result (53.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL this school | 894 | 78.2% | 53.9% |
| CENTRAL PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 600 | 76.3% | 33.3% |
| IS 238 SUSAN B ANTHONY ACADEMY HOLLIS | 820 | 85.1% | 45.6% |
| MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 569 | 80.5% | 23.3% |
| JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) BRONX | 778 | 85.9% | 49.6% |
| SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL UTICA | 749 | 83.4% | 48.3% |
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 JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #350 of 766 | #31 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #109 of 768 ▲ 369 | #4 of 57 ▲ 35 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #353 of 768 ▼ 82 | #35 of 57 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 894 | #113 of 796 | #23 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #600 of 683 | #35 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.4% | #14 of 688 | #3 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.2% | #242 of 773 | #39 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.5% | #150 of 524 | #18 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
894
-229 (-20%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 1,110
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 894 | 70.7 | 12.6:1 | 78% (699) |
| 2023-24 | 917 | 63.4 | 14.5:1 | 75% (689) |
| 2022-23 | 948 | 67.1 | 14.1:1 | 78% (742) |
| 2020-21 | 1,123 | 73 | 15.4:1 | 74% (834) |
| 2017-18 | 1,110 | 68 | 16.3:1 | 66% (738) |
| 2015-16 | 964 | 54 | 17.9:1 | 74% (712) |
| 2010-11 | 1,110 | 59 | 18.8:1 | 47% (527) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
About JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a middle school with a street address in QUEENS VILLAGE, New York. Its 894 students are spread across grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 68% above the 531 average for middle schools in New York.
JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of the 46 schools that make up NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 (21,817 students in total).
Asian students are the largest group at JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, with 33% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 28% Black, 25% Hispanic, 9% Native American, and 3% White. By the diversity index, JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes in at 74%.
Teachers at the school number 70.7 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.6:1. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. Roughly 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. That is close to the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
The allk12 Grade for JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is B+. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 66% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 53.9% is 7.7 points above the 46.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Within Queens County, median household income is about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 392 public schools in Queens County, with a combined enrollment of about 268,205.
Of nearby public schools, BELLAIRE SCHOOL (THE) is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes in 2nd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 1,123 to 894. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.6:1, from 15.4:1.
Questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 #29
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- IS 238 SUSAN B ANTHONY ACADEMYMiddle · 820 students
- PATHWAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 818 students
- PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEYElementary · 806 students
- PS 131 ABIGAIL ADAMSElementary · 754 students
- PS 33 EDWARD M FUNKElementary · 735 students
Other schools in QUEENS VILLAGE
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,131 students
- PS 33 EDWARD M FUNKElementary · 735 students
- BELLAIRE SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 699 students
- BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 601 students
- PS/IS 295Elementary · 562 students
- PS 34 JOHN HARVARDElementary · 440 students
Nearby schools
- BELLAIRE SCHOOL (THE)0.6 mi · 699
- PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK0.8 mi · 735
- PS/IS 2950.8 mi · 562
- PS 34 JOHN HARVARD0.8 mi · 440
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,131
- PS 134 HOLLIS1.0 mi · 325
Frequently asked questions
About JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 894 students in grades 06-08.
Is JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL have?
JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL employs 71 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
What is the student diversity at JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL are roughly 3% White, 25% Hispanic, 28% Black, 33% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL in?
JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29.
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