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QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE)
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)BeatsExpectations
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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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