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Enrollment
2,400
High
DISTRICT 793 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012302013
JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL
101-01 ROCKAWAY BLVD, OZONE PARK, NY 11417 · (718) 322-0500 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,400 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of New York public high schools
- B-Test 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.
- ·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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
182 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
2,017 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 643 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 612 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 586 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 549 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 10 | 0% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -6.0pp since 2023
Math
54.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
58.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL
JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (58.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL this school | 2,400 | 84.0% | 58.5% |
| HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL JAMAICA | 2,298 | 85.9% | 45.0% |
| MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS NEW YORK | 1,657 | 81.4% | 74.7% |
| JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL FLUSHING | 2,778 | 78.8% | 51.7% |
| JOHN DEWEY HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 2,209 | 88.6% | 53.5% |
| RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL RICHMOND HILL | 1,841 | 87.9% | 50.5% |
Matched among New York high 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 JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #574 of 1,135 | #35 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #515 of 1,109 ▲ 18 | #32 of 85 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #510 of 1,135 ▼ 43 | #33 of 89 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,400 | #33 of 1,216 | #6 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #852 of 1,058 | #41 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #107 of 1,070 | #23 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.0% | #367 of 1,167 | #32 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.7% | #204 of 339 | #26 of 39 |
Ranked against other public high 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
2,400
-25 (-1%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 3,309
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 2,400 | 181.6 | 13.2:1 | 84% (2,017) |
| 2023-24 | 2,431 | 172.9 | 14.1:1 | 85% (2,059) |
| 2022-23 | 2,366 | 173.5 | 13.6:1 | 78% (1,837) |
| 2020-21 | 2,425 | 173 | 14.0:1 | 85% (2,056) |
| 2017-18 | 2,270 | 161.1 | 14.1:1 | 80% (1,813) |
| 2015-16 | 2,364 | 162 | 14.6:1 | 79% (1,856) |
| 2010-11 | 3,309 | 179 | 18.5:1 | 85% (2,829) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL.
About JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL
JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school in OZONE PARK, New York, one of the schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. Enrolled students number 2,400 students, in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 259% higher than the average for high schools in New York, which is about 668.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 includes 63 schools. Together they enroll 39,209 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL. The largest is Hispanic students, at 41%. Smaller groups are 28% Asian, 25% Black, 3% White, and 2% Native American. For comparison, the population of Queens County is roughly 28% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL employs 181.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.2:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 84%.
Measured against New York public high schools, JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL is 14.4 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Queens County has about 2,323,052 residents, and the median household income is $86,136, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. In all, Queens County has 392 public schools and roughly 268,205 students.
The school nearest to JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL is MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 2,400, starting from 2,425.
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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 #27
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
- PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLERElementary · 1,094 students
Other schools in OZONE PARK
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- HIGH SCHOOL-CONSTRUCTION TRADES ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTUREHigh · 1,074 students
- PS 63 OLD SOUTHElementary · 957 students
- JHS 202 ROBERT H GODDARDMiddle · 907 students
- ROBERT H GODDARD HS-COMM/TECHHigh · 613 students
Nearby schools
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES0.1 mi · 1,610
- PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER0.3 mi · 1,094
- PS 65 RAYMOND YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 378
- PS 63 OLD SOUTH0.5 mi · 957
- PS 62 CHESTER PARK SCHOOL0.7 mi · 827
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL0.7 mi · 1,459
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL?
JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,400 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL serve?
JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 13.2:1 (182 FTE teachers).
How diverse is JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL?
JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 3% White, 41% Hispanic, 25% Black, 28% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL?
JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.