PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL

PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is a high school of tight-knit scale in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, caters to 521 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 22% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, which oversees 46 schools and 21,817 students, PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate median household earnings sit near $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 578 (now 521). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 92% to 73%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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