JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD

Located at 144-80 BARCLAY AVE, in FLUSHING, New York, JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD is a mid-tier junior high that caters to 603 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,704 students; JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD is among them.

Demographically, JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD reports that the most-represented group is Asian (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 41% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% White. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, On paper, JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 57.1%, a residual of +13.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Queens County) records that median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD is one.

The closest other public school is FLUSHING INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 774 students in 2018 compared to 603 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 66% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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