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MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized middle-grades schools in MIDDLE VILLAGE, New York, part of MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 468 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.
MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
On demographics, MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment; the rest looks like 34% White, 6% Asian. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 47.7%; actual is 73.3%, +25.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, Queens County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 20%: 390 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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