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Enrollment
1,162
High
DISTRICT 852 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30·NCES 360010201821
ATLAS
28-01 41ST AVE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101 · (718) 937-6005 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,162 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
123 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
1,013 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 616 | 53% |
| Grade 10 | 203 | 17% |
| Grade 11 | 210 | 18% |
| Grade 12 | 130 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
35.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 28.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ATLAS
ATLAS's state test result (33.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATLAS this school | 1,162 | 87.2% | 33.7% |
| QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL LONG ISLAND CITY | 1,294 | 86.9% | 56.2% |
| IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368) BRONX | 953 | 90.2% | 43.6% |
| BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CAMPUS BRENTWOOD | 1,287 | 82.1% | 48.5% |
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND BUSINESS CORONA | 721 | 87.4% | 63.3% |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL YONKERS | 1,176 | 88.1% | 43.0% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ATLAS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #1,031 of 1,135 | #85 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #806 of 1,109 ▲ 96 | #59 of 85 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,065 of 1,135 ▲ 52 | #87 of 89 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,162 | #186 of 1,216 | #21 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #205 of 1,058 | #4 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.2% | #862 of 1,070 | #86 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.2% | #298 of 1,167 | #17 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +31.0% | #46 of 339 | #7 of 39 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,162
+489 (+73%) vs 2020
+11% since 2010-11, when it was 1,044
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,162 | 123.3 | 9.4:1 | 87% (1,013) |
| 2023-24 | 1,445 | 110.9 | 13.0:1 | 81% (1,171) |
| 2022-23 | 975 | 91.2 | 10.7:1 | 65% (636) |
| 2020-21 | 673 | 60 | 11.2:1 | 87% (588) |
| 2017-18 | 887 | 58.9 | 15.1:1 | 90% (800) |
| 2015-16 | 870 | 51 | 17.1:1 | 93% (810) |
| 2010-11 | 1,044 | 55 | 19.0:1 | 85% (888) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ATLAS.
About ATLAS
A high-enrollment high school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, ATLAS is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. It offers grades 9 through 12 and has 1,162 students enrolled. That is 74% larger than the average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 includes 53 schools. Together they enroll 35,337 students.
By race and ethnicity, ATLAS is 88% Hispanic. Other groups include 5% Asian and 4% White. The county population is about 28% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 21, compared with 70 nationally.
ATLAS has 123.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.4:1. The gap from the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is 1.6 students per teacher. At ATLAS, 87% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 10 points above the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
Among New York public high schools, ATLAS outscored 8%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 33.7%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 42.9%.
Queens County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Queens County's 392 public schools enroll about 268,205 students and include ATLAS.
ATLAS is less than a tenth of a mile from ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, ATLAS ranks 9th on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
In 2020-21 the school reported 673 students, and in 2024-25 it reported 1,162. Grade changes, mergers, or boundary shifts can explain gaps this large. The ratio was 11.2:1 in 2020-21 and 9.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Queens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,323,052
Census ACS
Median income
$86,136
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
392
268,205 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONGMiddle · 1,555 students
- IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZERMiddle · 1,397 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- PS 122 MAMIE FAYElementary · 1,124 students
Other schools in LONG ISLAND CITY
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- IS 141 STEINWAY (THE)Middle · 1,005 students
Nearby schools
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES0.1 mi · 1,206
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 692
- ENERGY TECH HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 487
- IS 204 OLIVER W HOLMES0.4 mi · 384
- PS 112 DUTCH KILLS0.4 mi · 521
- ACADEMY OF FINANCE AND ENTERPRISE0.5 mi · 874
Frequently asked questions
About ATLASHow many students attend ATLAS?
ATLAS enrolls approximately 1,162 students in grades 09-12.
Is ATLAS an elementary, middle, or high school?
ATLAS is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does ATLAS have?
ATLAS employs 123 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.4:1.
How diverse is ATLAS?
ATLAS reports a student body of 4% White, 88% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is ATLAS public or private?
ATLAS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.