METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL

Located at 91-30 METROPOLITAN AVE, in FOREST HILLS, New York, METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is an average-sized senior high that works with 837 students (grades 6 through 12), part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL sits 25% larger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 36,340 students. METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 21% Asian, 11% White, 8% Black, 6% Native American. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL shows 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.6%, the actual is 48.2%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Queens County put 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%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PS 233, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 70.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 841 students in 2018 compared to 837 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 40% to 50% over that span.

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