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QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE)
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE)
As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in FLUSHING, New York, QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE) hosts 536 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. That puts it 21% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, which oversees 46 schools and 33,704 students, QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE) is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE) lists that the most-represented group is Asian (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 13% Black, 7% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.
On the income-and-resources front, QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE) reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE) sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 54.5%; actual is 81.7%, +27.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Queens County put median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE) is one.
JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE). On composite proficiency, QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE) comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.5%.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 496 students in 2018 compared to 536 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 21% to 13% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.
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