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What's the one class at JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN every student should take?
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Enrollment
1,516
Middle
DISTRICT 1,051 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009902716
JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN
64-20 175TH ST, FLUSHING, NY 11365 · (718) 358-2005 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,516 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% 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.
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
17.7:1
86 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
1,086 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 480 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 508 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 526 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
79.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
85.7%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 85.7% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 85.7% |
% 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
80.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+31.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% 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 32 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 216 GEORGE J RYAN
JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN's state test result (80.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN this school | 1,516 | 71.6% | 80.3% |
| MADELEINE BRENNAN SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 1,518 | 77.7% | 82.8% |
| IS 237 FLUSHING | 1,313 | 83.5% | 67.8% |
| CHRISTA MCAULIFFE SCHOOL (THE) /IS 187 BROOKLYN | 949 | 76.1% | 90.6% |
| JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKER FLUSHING | 1,516 | 77.2% | 73.4% |
| IS 25 ADRIEN BLOCK FLUSHING | 1,023 | 70.5% | 72.4% |
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 216 GEORGE J RYAN ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.3% | #52 of 766 | #4 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.7% | #141 of 768 ▼ 4 | #8 of 57 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #48 of 768 ▲ 2 | #4 of 57 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,516 | #12 of 796 | #6 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #680 of 683 | #55 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.0% | #375 of 688 | #41 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.6% | #282 of 773 | #45 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.0% | #116 of 168 | #8 of 9 |
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
-68 (-4%) vs 2020
+24% since 2010-11, when it was 1,226
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 18.4:1
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 | 1,516 | 85.8 | 17.7:1 | 72% (1,086) |
| 2023-24 | 1,495 | 89.8 | 16.6:1 | 69% (1,029) |
| 2022-23 | 1,476 | 88.9 | 16.6:1 | 67% (996) |
| 2020-21 | 1,584 | 86 | 18.4:1 | 69% (1,098) |
| 2017-18 | 1,458 | 79 | 18.5:1 | 68% (996) |
| 2015-16 | 1,400 | 72 | 19.4:1 | 59% (829) |
| 2010-11 | 1,226 | 66 | 18.6:1 | 47% (575) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN.
About JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN
JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN is a large middle school in New York, located in FLUSHING. The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,516 students. That puts enrollment 185% larger than the 531-student average for middle schools in New York.
JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN is one school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26, a system of 34 schools with 29,203 students.
Of every 100 students at JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN, about 70 are Asian. It is also 14% Hispanic, 11% White, and 3% Black. Queens County's residents are about 26% Asian, 44 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN scores 48%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN is 17.7:1, based on 85.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Lunch program data show 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Among New York public middle schools, JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN outscored 97%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
After accounting for student poverty, JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN is in the top 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 80.3% is 31.6 points above the 48.6% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
American Community Survey estimates for Queens County show that median household income comes to about $86,136, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 392, with about 268,205 students.
JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN's nearest public school is FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL (about 0.2 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN is 1st of 7 nearby schools with test data.
In the federal locale system, JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 1,516, from 1,584 in 2020-21.
The JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN discussion page is a place for open houses, carpools, and field trips. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 #26
- FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,573 students
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,004 students
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,866 students
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,131 students
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMiddle · 1,104 students
- JHS 67 LOUIS PASTEURMiddle · 999 students
Other schools in FLUSHING
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
Nearby schools
- FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 4,573
- PS 173 FRESH MEADOWS0.2 mi · 950
- PS 1770.6 mi · 569
- PS/MS 200 MAGNET SCHOOL-GLOBAL STUDI0.7 mi · 489
- PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS0.8 mi · 757
- PS 26 RUFUS KING0.9 mi · 548
Frequently asked questions
About JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANWhat is the total enrollment at JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN?
JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN enrolls approximately 1,516 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN serve?
JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN is approximately 17.7:1 (86 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN?
At JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN, the student body is approximately 11% White, 14% Hispanic, 3% Black, 70% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN public or private?
JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.