MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES

MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES is a heavily attended 6-8 campus in OZONE PARK, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. The school educates 1,610 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 203% above the state mean of about 531.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, which oversees 63 schools and 39,209 students, MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 36% Asian, 8% Native American, 5% Black, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, On paper, MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES has 113 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 57.7%, a residual of +13.0 points.

In the area at large, Queens County reports that median household income runs about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES is one.

The closest other public school is JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES has edged down 15%, going from 1,888 students in 2018 to 1,610 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 54% to 36% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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