NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY

NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is an intimate elementary-level community in WOODHAVEN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. The school works with 361 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, which oversees 63 schools and 39,209 students, NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% Asian, 5% Black, 5% White, 3% Native American. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Queens County's rate of about 77%.

With demographic context factored in, NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.7%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Queens County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY is one campus in the mix.

PS 60 WOODHAVEN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 60.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY FOR DISCOVERY's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 361). Asian enrollment moved from 17% to 13% across the same window.

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