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How has MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
1,131
High
DISTRICT 2,169 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009902030
MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL
230-17 HILLSIDE AVE, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11427 · (718) 776-4728 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,131 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% 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
13.3:1
85 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
861 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 311 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 303 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 255 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 259 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
53.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL
MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (53.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,131 | 76.1% | 53.2% |
| HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL BUFFALO | 1,140 | 83.1% | 63.5% |
| YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY JAMAICA | 596 | 75.7% | 56.3% |
| QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL JAMAICA | 711 | 83.3% | 53.6% |
| QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES BELLEROSE | 840 | 67.0% | 43.2% |
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP JAMAICA | 497 | 76.3% | 87.3% |
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 MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.2% | #683 of 1,135 | #46 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #697 of 1,109 ▲ 64 | #46 of 85 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #576 of 1,135 ▲ 45 | #43 of 89 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,131 | #196 of 1,216 | #22 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #858 of 1,058 | #42 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.9% | #52 of 1,070 | #7 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.1% | #482 of 1,167 | #65 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.7% | #640 of 743 | #36 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
1,131
-27 (-2%) vs 2020
-56% since 2010-11, when it was 2,551
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 1,131 | 85.3 | 13.3:1 | 76% (861) |
| 2023-24 | 1,129 | 86.1 | 13.1:1 | 74% (831) |
| 2022-23 | 1,068 | 83.4 | 12.8:1 | 75% (797) |
| 2020-21 | 1,158 | 85 | 13.6:1 | 74% (853) |
| 2017-18 | 1,175 | 74.6 | 15.8:1 | 77% (907) |
| 2015-16 | 1,506 | 81 | 18.6:1 | 71% (1,068) |
| 2010-11 | 2,551 | 100 | 25.5:1 | 51% (1,289) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL.
About MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL
MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL runs as a high-enrollment high school in QUEENS VILLAGE, New York. The school enrolls 1,131 students, from grades 9 through 12. Average enrollment for high schools in New York is about 668, so this school runs 69% larger than that.
MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL falls under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26, which has 34 schools enrolling 29,203 students.
The most common group at MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL is Black students, at 35%. Other groups make up 32% Asian, 23% Hispanic, 5% Native American, and 3% White. Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school's share is higher. The school's diversity index is 72%, meaning two students picked at random have a 72% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at the school number 85.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.3:1. This ratio sits 2.2 above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Roughly 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. That tracks the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 44% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL is 6.2 points above its prediction. Actual: 53.2%. Predicted: 47.0%.
Across 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 nearest other public school, BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 63.0%; MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL's is 53.2%, ranking 6th of 9.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL enrolled 1,158; in 2024-25, 1,131.
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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 #26
- FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,573 students
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,004 students
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,866 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMiddle · 1,104 students
- JHS 67 LOUIS PASTEURMiddle · 999 students
Other schools in QUEENS VILLAGE
- JEAN NUZZI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 894 students
- PS 33 EDWARD M FUNKElementary · 735 students
- BELLAIRE SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 699 students
- BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 601 students
- PS/IS 295Elementary · 562 students
- PS 34 JOHN HARVARDElementary · 440 students
Nearby schools
- BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 601
- PS 18 WINCHESTER0.4 mi · 425
- PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK0.5 mi · 735
- PS 188 KINGSBURY0.8 mi · 637
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES0.9 mi · 840
- PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL0.9 mi · 225
Frequently asked questions
About MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL?
MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,131 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL serve?
MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL have?
MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL employs 85 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the student diversity at MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 3% White, 23% Hispanic, 35% Black, 32% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.