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What's the most underrated thing about JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,265
Middle
DISTRICT 674 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010002718
JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK
85-05 144TH ST, JAMAICA, NY 11435 · (718) 657-1120 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,265 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 40% of New York public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
13.8:1
91 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
1,115 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 | 410 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 416 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 438 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
42.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
45.7%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.0% | 45.7% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 45.6% |
% 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
44.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK
JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK's state test result (44.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK this school | 1,265 | 88.1% | 44.0% |
| JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL OZONE PARK | 1,459 | 88.5% | 53.8% |
| IS 125 THOMAS J MCCANN WOODSIDE WOODSIDE | 1,320 | 86.4% | 52.9% |
| IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE) MASPETH | 1,581 | 81.0% | 59.3% |
| MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES OZONE PARK | 1,610 | 82.5% | 57.7% |
| JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE) BRONX | 778 | 85.9% | 49.6% |
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 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #542 of 766 | #44 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #566 of 768 ▼ 25 | #43 of 57 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #469 of 768 ▼ 62 | #46 of 57 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,265 | #32 of 796 | #12 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #638 of 683 | #40 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.8% | #134 of 688 | #20 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.1% | #160 of 773 | #17 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.3% | #123 of 524 | #11 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
1,265
-321 (-20%) vs 2020
-8% since 2010-11, when it was 1,376
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 1,265 | 91.4 | 13.8:1 | 88% (1,115) |
| 2023-24 | 1,273 | 87.6 | 14.5:1 | 85% (1,079) |
| 2022-23 | 1,348 | 95.5 | 14.1:1 | 80% (1,073) |
| 2020-21 | 1,586 | 105 | 15.1:1 | 79% (1,251) |
| 2017-18 | 1,628 | 90 | 18.1:1 | 70% (1,145) |
| 2015-16 | 1,571 | 84 | 18.7:1 | 53% (832) |
| 2010-11 | 1,376 | 82 | 16.8:1 | 90% (1,241) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK.
About JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK
JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK, located in JAMAICA, New York, is a large middle school. Enrollment totals 1,265 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 138% larger than the 531-student average for middle schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 is made up of 50 schools with 36,340 students in all.
Of every 100 students at JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK, about 53 are Hispanic. It is also 25% Asian, 13% Black, 4% White, and 3% Native American. Queens County's residents are about 28% Hispanic, 25 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK scores 64%.
Its staff includes 91.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.8 students per teacher. Across middle schools in New York, the average ratio is 10.3:1. JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 88%. Compared with the 77% average for public schools in Queens County, the school's rate is higher.
JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 40% of New York public middle schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK's results are 1.4 points above predicted: 44.0% against 42.6%.
In Queens County, home to about 2,323,052 people, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Queens County number 392, with about 268,205 students.
Measured in a straight line, PS 117 J KELD/BRIARWOOD SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile from JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK is behind the 49.8% nearby average, ranking 7th of 9.
Federal data place JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 1,265, from 1,586 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.1:1 to 13.8:1 over the same years.
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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 #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- JHS 190 RUSSELL SAGEMiddle · 935 students
Other schools in JAMAICA
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL IIElementary · 810 students
- PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITHElementary · 810 students
Nearby schools
- PS 117 J KELD/BRIARWOOD SCHOOL0.1 mi · 775
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL II0.3 mi · 810
- YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL-QUEENS0.4 mi · 544
- PS 860.4 mi · 689
- PS 82 HAMMOND0.5 mi · 674
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,298
Frequently asked questions
About JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKWhat is the total enrollment at JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK?
JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK enrolls approximately 1,265 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK serve?
JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK is approximately 13.8:1 (91 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK?
Student demographics at JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK are roughly 4% White, 53% Hispanic, 13% Black, 25% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK in?
JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28.
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