LEARNERS AND LEADERS

Set in GLENDALE, New York, LEARNERS AND LEADERS is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24. It instructs 421 students across grades pre-K through 5.

LEARNERS AND LEADERS is one of 57 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, a district that teaches 48,008 students overall.

In terms of who attends, LEARNERS AND LEADERS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). The remainder is composed of 9% White, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEARNERS AND LEADERS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -1.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Queens County) records that median household income runs about $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), LEARNERS AND LEADERS is one campus in the mix.

JHS 162 WILLOUGHBY (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEARNERS AND LEADERS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEARNERS AND LEADERS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. LEARNERS AND LEADERS's enrollment has declined 32% since 2018, when it stood at 617 (now 421). Hispanic enrollment moved from 77% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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