QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL
As a low-enrollment high school in FLUSHING, New York, QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls 351 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,704 students; QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (86%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 10% Asian, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.
In terms of school funding signals, QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Queens County's rate of about 77%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of +15.0 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one.
FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.1%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL has climbed 16%, going from 302 students in 2018 to 351 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 41% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.
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