OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2

Located at 135-25 79TH ST, in HOWARD BEACH, New York, OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2 is a medium-sized elementary campus that teaches 437 students (grades K through 5), overseen by OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2.

OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2 sits inside OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2 reports that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 43% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% Native American, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2 higher than the state norm the norm. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Queens County) records that median household income runs about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PS 232 LINDENWOOD, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2. On composite proficiency, OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2 comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL 2 runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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