MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL

Set in QUEENS VILLAGE, New York, MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL is a heavily attended secondary school, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26. It instructs 1,131 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 69% larger than the state mean of about 668.

Across the 34 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 (29,203 students total), MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Black (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 32% Asian, 23% Hispanic, 5% Native American, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL lists 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of +6.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Queens County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

The closest other public school is BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 1,175 students in 2018 compared to 1,131 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 44% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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