JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, a large middle-grades school in BAYSIDE, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26, instructs 1,104 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 108% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 29,203 students. JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE reports that the largest single group is Asian, at 64% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 12% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 55.1%; JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE posts 84.9%, +29.9 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Queens County put the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE is one.

CIVIC SCHOOL OF BAYSIDE HILLS (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 75.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,157 (now 1,104). Over the same period, the White share fell from 17% to 12%.

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