JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL is a middle-grades school of large scale in OZONE PARK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, educateing 1,459 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 175% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 runs 63 schools in total, collectively educating 39,209 students. JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Asian, 4% Black, 2% White, 2% Native American. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 118 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of +11.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Queens County) records that median household income runs about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL is one.

Nearest neighbor: QUEENS EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 56.1%.

JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 1,881 (now 1,459). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 60% to 65%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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