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Enrollment
2,778
High
DISTRICT 851 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012202014
JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL
63-25 MAIN ST, FLUSHING, NY 11367 · (718) 263-1919 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,778 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
13.5:1
206 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
2,188 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 899 | 32% |
| Grade 10 | 618 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 695 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 560 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 0% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
35.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 38.0% |
% 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
51.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL
JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (51.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL this school | 2,778 | 78.8% | 51.7% |
| AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL LONG ISLAND CITY | 1,924 | 75.1% | 73.5% |
| MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS NEW YORK | 1,657 | 81.4% | 74.7% |
| JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL OZONE PARK | 2,400 | 84.0% | 58.5% |
| FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOL FOREST HILLS | 3,394 | 72.6% | 57.3% |
| HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL JAMAICA | 2,298 | 85.9% | 45.0% |
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 BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #712 of 1,135 | #52 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #808 of 1,109 ▼ 27 | #60 of 85 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #749 of 1,135 ▲ 23 | #66 of 89 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,778 | #26 of 1,216 | #5 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #886 of 1,058 | #49 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.2% | #167 of 1,070 | #35 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.8% | #463 of 1,167 | #58 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.0% | #136 of 743 | #7 of 48 |
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
2,778
-501 (-15%) vs 2020
-20% since 2010-11, when it was 3,480
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 2,778 | 205.7 | 13.5:1 | 79% (2,188) |
| 2023-24 | 2,741 | 208.6 | 13.1:1 | 80% (2,201) |
| 2022-23 | 3,003 | 211.7 | 14.2:1 | 77% (2,321) |
| 2020-21 | 3,279 | 202 | 16.2:1 | 80% (2,619) |
| 2017-18 | 3,608 | 193.8 | 18.6:1 | 76% (2,727) |
| 2015-16 | 3,569 | 182 | 19.6:1 | 72% (2,570) |
| 2010-11 | 3,480 | 147 | 23.7:1 | 73% (2,545) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL.
About JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL
JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL is a high-enrollment high school found in FLUSHING, New York. The school's enrollment of 2,778 students covers grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in New York average about 668 students each.
A total of 46 schools make up NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, with 33,704 students enrolled.
JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL is 52% Hispanic by enrollment. Other groups include 25% Asian, 13% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% White. The county population is about 28% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.5:1, with 205.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is higher than the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Lunch subsidy eligibility at JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL is 79%. That tracks the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 42% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 51.7%; the prediction is 46.0%.
County data help place the school in context: in Queens County, the median household income is $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Queens County is home to 392 public schools and about 268,205 public school students.
The closest public school to JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL is QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE), about 0.2 miles away. JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL comes in 9th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 2,778, a 15% decrease from 3,279 in 2020-21. The ratio was 16.2:1 in 2020-21 and 13.5:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 #25
- 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
- PS 79 FRANCIS LEWISElementary · 1,088 students
Other schools in FLUSHING
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
Nearby schools
- QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE)0.2 mi · 536
- PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER0.2 mi · 596
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,342
- PS 1200.5 mi · 748
- PS 201 DISCOVERY SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND RESEARCH (THE)0.6 mi · 304
- PS 165 EDITH K BERGTRAUM0.7 mi · 606
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL?
JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,778 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL serve?
JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 13.5:1 (206 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL?
At JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 4% White, 52% Hispanic, 13% Black, 25% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.