JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY

JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY operates as a modestly sized 6-8 campus in JAMAICA, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28. Current enrollment sits at 354 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY is one of 50 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, a district that works with 36,340 students overall.

Demographically, JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY reports that 33% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Hispanic, 24% Asian, 10% Native American. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY higher than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Queens County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Queens County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY is one.

Nearest neighbor: YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.4%.

JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY has expanded 4%, going from 341 students in 2018 to 354 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 44% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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