ATLAS

ATLAS operates as a substantial senior high in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30. Current enrollment sits at 1,162 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ATLAS sits 74% larger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 35,337 students. ATLAS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, ATLAS logs that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 5% Asian, 4% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 123 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at ATLAS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ATLAS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Queens County put median household income runs about $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 ATLAS is one.

The closest other public school is ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ATLAS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. ATLAS's enrollment has expanded 31% since 2018, when it stood at 887 (now 1,162). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 63% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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