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Enrollment
1,516
Middle
DISTRICT 822 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202639
JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER
147-26 25TH DR, FLUSHING, NY 11354 · (718) 445-3232 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,516 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 94% of New York public middle schools
- ATest 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
13.6:1
111 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
1,171 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 | 493 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 529 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 492 | 32% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
53%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
69.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
81.6%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 81.6% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 76.4% |
% 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
73.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% 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 27 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 JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER
JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER's state test result (73.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER this school | 1,516 | 77.2% | 73.4% |
| MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 1,518 | 77.7% | 82.8% |
| IS 25 ADRIEN BLOCK FLUSHING | 1,023 | 70.5% | 72.4% |
| JHS 259 WILLIAM MCKINLEY BROOKLYN | 1,780 | 82.4% | 78.7% |
| JHS 220 JOHN J PERSHING BROOKLYN | 1,257 | 89.8% | 74.5% |
| JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN FLUSHING | 1,516 | 71.6% | 80.3% |
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 JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #95 of 766 | #8 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.6% | #174 of 768 ▲ 34 | #10 of 57 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #110 of 768 ▼ 8 | #12 of 57 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,516 | #13 of 796 | #7 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #634 of 683 | #39 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.4% | #290 of 688 | #34 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.2% | #252 of 773 | #40 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.5% | #518 of 524 | #42 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
1,516
+121 (+9%) vs 2020
+33% since 2010-11, when it was 1,137
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 1,516 | 111.1 | 13.6:1 | 77% (1,171) |
| 2023-24 | 1,469 | 113.3 | 13.0:1 | 77% (1,137) |
| 2022-23 | 1,392 | 102.4 | 13.6:1 | 76% (1,056) |
| 2020-21 | 1,395 | 94 | 14.8:1 | 77% (1,072) |
| 2017-18 | 1,523 | 94 | 16.2:1 | 77% (1,172) |
| 2015-16 | 1,538 | 93 | 16.5:1 | 75% (1,160) |
| 2010-11 | 1,137 | 64 | 17.8:1 | 83% (942) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER.
About JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER
JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER is a large middle school in FLUSHING, New York. A federal count lists 1,516 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in New York is about 531, so this school runs 185% above that.
Enrollment across the 46 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 totals 33,704 students.
By race and ethnicity, JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER is 60% Asian. The rest of enrollment is 32% Hispanic and 6% White. Census estimates put the Asian share of Queens County's population at about 26%. The chance that two students picked at random at JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 53%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 13.6:1, with 111.1 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. About 77% of students, or 1,171, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is about the same, 77%.
JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER is graded A by allk12, scoring above 94% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After accounting for student poverty, JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER is in the top 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 73.4% is 26.8 points above the 46.6% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Census Bureau estimates for Queens County show that median household income is about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 392 public schools operate in Queens County, serving about 268,205 students.
Nearest public school: PS 21 EDWARD HART, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER holds at least 8 other public schools. JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER ranks 2nd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 73.4% against a local average of 62.4%.
NCES assigns JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 9%, from 1,395 to 1,516. The ratio was 14.8:1 in 2020-21 and 13.6:1 in 2024-25.
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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
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 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 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
Nearby schools
- PS 21 EDWARD HART0.0 mi · 1,086
- PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN0.6 mi · 331
- PS 79 FRANCIS LEWIS0.8 mi · 1,088
- PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 303
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES0.8 mi · 441
- VERITAS ACADEMY0.8 mi · 653
Frequently asked questions
About JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERHow large is JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER?
JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER enrolls approximately 1,516 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER serve?
JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER.
How diverse is JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER?
JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER reports a student body of 6% White, 32% Hispanic, 1% Black, 60% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER public or private?
JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.