PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

Located at 611 BEACH 19TH ST, in FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a close-knit primary school that works with 313 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Operationally, PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL answers to PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 40% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Roughly 74% of students at PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 47.6%; actual is 85.3%, +37.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, Queens County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

MS 53 BRIAN PICCOLO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

The school occupies an urban site. PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 319 (now 313). Hispanic enrollment moved from 23% to 40% across the same window.

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