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QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD 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 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL
QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL, a mid-tier four-year high school in JAMAICA, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, caters to 711 students, covering grades 6 through 12.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 36,340 students. QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL logs that 35% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% Black, 23% Asian, 6% Native American, 4% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.4%; this one delivers 53.6%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Queens County) shows that median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: JAMAICA GATEWAY TO THE SCIENCES, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 670 students in 2018 compared to 711 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 16% to 35% across the same window.
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